snick

• POS: Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

snick, n. [Prov. E. snick a notch; cf. Icel. snikka nick, cut.].

•  A small cut or mark.  [1913 Webster]
•  A slight hit or tip of the ball, often unintentional.  [1913 Webster]
•  A knot or irregularity in yarn.  Knight.  [1913 Webster]
•  A snip or cut, as in the hair of a beast.  [1913 Webster]

Snick and snee [cf. D. snee, snede, a cut], a combat with knives. [Obs.] Wiseman.

snick, v. t. 

•  To cut slightly; to strike, or strike off, as by cutting.  H. Kingsley.  [1913 Webster]
•  To hit (a ball) lightly.  R. A. Proctor.  [1913 Webster]

snick, n. & v. t. 

 See Sneck.  [1913 Webster]
"Give him money, George, and let him go snick up."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

snick, v. & n.
--v.tr.
1 cut a small notch in.
2 make a small incision in.
3 Cricket deflect (the ball) slightly with the bat.
--n.
1 a small notch or cut.
2 Cricket a slight deflection of the ball by the bat.

Etymology

18th c.: prob. f. snick-a-snee fight with knives

ROGET THESAURUS

snick

Smallness

N smallness, littleness, tenuity, paucity, fewness, meanness, insignificance (unimportance), mediocrity, moderation, small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum, vanishing point, material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace, minutiae, details, look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow, spark, scintilla, gleam, touch, cast, grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture, inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive, snip, snippet, snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag, chip, chipping, shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair, nutshell, thimbleful, spoonful, handful, capful, mouthful, fragment, fraction, drop in the ocean, animalcule, trifle, mere nothing, next to nothing, hardly anything, just enough to swear by, the shadow of a shade, finiteness, finite quantity, small, little, diminutive, minute, fine, inconsiderable, paltry, faint, slender, light, slight, scanty, scant, limited, meager, sparing, few, low, so-so, middling, tolerable, no great shakes, below par, under par, below the mark, at a low ebb, halfway, moderate, modest, tender, subtle, inappreciable, evanescent, infinitesimal, homeopathic, very small, atomic, corpuscular, microscopic, molecular, subatomic, mere, simple, sheer, stark, bare, near run, dull, petty, shallow, stolid, ungifted, unintelligent, to a small extent, on a small scale, a little bit, a wee bit, slightly, imperceptibly, miserably, wretchedly, insufficiently, imperfectly, faintly, passably, pretty well, well enough, partially, in part, in a certain degree, to a certain degree, to a certain extent, comparatively, some, rather in some degree, in some measure, something, somewhat, simply, only, purely, merely, at least, at the least, at most, at the most, ever so little, as little as may be, tant soit peu, in ever so small a degree, thus far, pro tanto, within bounds, in a manner, after a fashion, so to speak, almost, nearly, well-nigh, short of, not quite, all but, near upon, close upon, peu s'en faut, near the mark, within an ace of, within an inch of, on the brink of, scarcely, hardly, barely, only just, no more than, about, thereabouts, somewhere about, nearly, say, be the same, be little more or less, no ways, no way, no wise, not at all, not in the least, not a bit, not a bit of it, not a whit, not a jot, not a shadow, in no wise, in no respect, by no means, by no manner of means, on no account, at no hand, dare pondus idonea fumo, magno conatu magnas nugas, small sands the mountain, moments make the year.