See snick in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
Download JSON data for snick meaning in English (7.0kB)
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "Probably from snick or snee.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "snicks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "snicking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "snicked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "snicked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "snick (third-person singular simple present snicks, present participle snicking, simple past and past participle snicked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1966, John Fowles, The Magus",
"text": "I reached out and snicked a white thread that hung from her sleeve.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cut or snip."
],
"id": "en-snick-en-verb-adi~RvWB",
"links": [
[
"cut",
"cut"
],
[
"snip",
"snip"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cut or snip."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Cricket",
"orig": "en:Cricket",
"parents": [
"Ball games",
"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To hit (the ball) with the edge of the bat, causing a slight deflection."
],
"id": "en-snick-en-verb-qrpYUGN9",
"links": [
[
"cricket",
"cricket"
],
[
"deflection",
"deflection"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(cricket) To hit (the ball) with the edge of the bat, causing a slight deflection."
],
"topics": [
"ball-games",
"cricket",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/snɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
},
{
"homophone": "SNCC"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-snick.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg/En-au-snick.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "snick"
}
{
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "Probably from snick or snee.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "snicks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "snick (plural snicks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Cricket",
"orig": "en:Cricket",
"parents": [
"Ball games",
"Sports",
"Human activity",
"Human behaviour",
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A small deflection of the ball off the side of the bat; often carries to the wicketkeeper for a catch."
],
"id": "en-snick-en-noun-7tdMxQlP",
"links": [
[
"cricket",
"cricket"
],
[
"deflection",
"deflection"
],
[
"wicketkeeper",
"wicketkeeper"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the side of the bat; often carries to the wicketkeeper for a catch."
],
"topics": [
"ball-games",
"cricket",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy",
"text": "Once the furore had been dampened, the minuscule snick on Billy's knee covered in a Superman plaster[…], I found my mind flashing through multiple matters, like that of a drowning person, only more optimistic.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A small cut or mark."
],
"id": "en-snick-en-noun-g5Ws2bOz",
"links": [
[
"cut",
"cut"
],
[
"mark",
"mark"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A knot or irregularity in yarn."
],
"id": "en-snick-en-noun-HtMNxM~0",
"links": [
[
"knot",
"knot"
],
[
"irregularity",
"irregularity"
],
[
"yarn",
"yarn"
],
[
"Edward H[enry] Knight",
"w:Edward H. Knight"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/snɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
},
{
"homophone": "SNCC"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-snick.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg/En-au-snick.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "snick"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Imitative.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "snicks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "snicking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "snicked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "snicked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "snick (third-person singular simple present snicks, present participle snicking, simple past and past participle snicked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To make something click, to make a clicking noise."
],
"id": "en-snick-en-verb-l-uE2piS",
"links": [
[
"click",
"click"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/snɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
},
{
"homophone": "SNCC"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-snick.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg/En-au-snick.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "snick"
}
{
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Imitative.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "snicks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "snick (plural snicks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "16 2 2 51 5 18 1 5",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty, Norton, published 2005, page 698",
"text": "Then it grew louder, and suddenly there came from the window a sharp metallic snick.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A sharp clicking sound."
],
"id": "en-snick-en-noun-eW8r460X"
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/snɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
},
{
"homophone": "SNCC"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-snick.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg/En-au-snick.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "snick"
}
{
"etymology_number": 3,
"forms": [
{
"form": "snicks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "snicking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "snicked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "snicked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "snick (third-person singular simple present snicks, present participle snicking, simple past and past participle snicked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "sneck"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of sneck"
],
"id": "en-snick-en-verb-u55yaBGu",
"links": [
[
"sneck",
"sneck#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/snɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
},
{
"homophone": "SNCC"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-snick.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg/En-au-snick.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "snick"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪk",
"Rhymes:English/ɪk/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "Probably from snick or snee.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "snicks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "snicking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "snicked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "snicked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "snick (third-person singular simple present snicks, present participle snicking, simple past and past participle snicked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1966, John Fowles, The Magus",
"text": "I reached out and snicked a white thread that hung from her sleeve.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To cut or snip."
],
"links": [
[
"cut",
"cut"
],
[
"snip",
"snip"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To cut or snip."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"en:Cricket"
],
"glosses": [
"To hit (the ball) with the edge of the bat, causing a slight deflection."
],
"links": [
[
"cricket",
"cricket"
],
[
"deflection",
"deflection"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(cricket) To hit (the ball) with the edge of the bat, causing a slight deflection."
],
"topics": [
"ball-games",
"cricket",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/snɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
},
{
"homophone": "SNCC"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-snick.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg/En-au-snick.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "snick"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪk",
"Rhymes:English/ɪk/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 1,
"etymology_text": "Probably from snick or snee.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "snicks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "snick (plural snicks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"en:Cricket"
],
"glosses": [
"A small deflection of the ball off the side of the bat; often carries to the wicketkeeper for a catch."
],
"links": [
[
"cricket",
"cricket"
],
[
"deflection",
"deflection"
],
[
"wicketkeeper",
"wicketkeeper"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the side of the bat; often carries to the wicketkeeper for a catch."
],
"topics": [
"ball-games",
"cricket",
"games",
"hobbies",
"lifestyle",
"sports"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "2013, Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy",
"text": "Once the furore had been dampened, the minuscule snick on Billy's knee covered in a Superman plaster[…], I found my mind flashing through multiple matters, like that of a drowning person, only more optimistic.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A small cut or mark."
],
"links": [
[
"cut",
"cut"
],
[
"mark",
"mark"
]
]
},
{
"glosses": [
"A knot or irregularity in yarn."
],
"links": [
[
"knot",
"knot"
],
[
"irregularity",
"irregularity"
],
[
"yarn",
"yarn"
],
[
"Edward H[enry] Knight",
"w:Edward H. Knight"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/snɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
},
{
"homophone": "SNCC"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-snick.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg/En-au-snick.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "snick"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪk",
"Rhymes:English/ɪk/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Imitative.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "snicks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "snicking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "snicked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "snicked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "snick (third-person singular simple present snicks, present participle snicking, simple past and past participle snicked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"To make something click, to make a clicking noise."
],
"links": [
[
"click",
"click"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/snɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
},
{
"homophone": "SNCC"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-snick.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg/En-au-snick.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "snick"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪk",
"Rhymes:English/ɪk/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"etymology_text": "Imitative.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "snicks",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "snick (plural snicks)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1893, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Naval Treaty, Norton, published 2005, page 698",
"text": "Then it grew louder, and suddenly there came from the window a sharp metallic snick.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A sharp clicking sound."
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/snɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
},
{
"homophone": "SNCC"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-snick.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg/En-au-snick.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "snick"
}
{
"categories": [
"English 1-syllable words",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"English terms with audio links",
"English terms with homophones",
"English verbs",
"Rhymes:English/ɪk",
"Rhymes:English/ɪk/1 syllable"
],
"etymology_number": 3,
"forms": [
{
"form": "snicks",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "snicking",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "snicked",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "snicked",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "snick (third-person singular simple present snicks, present participle snicking, simple past and past participle snicked)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"alt_of": [
{
"word": "sneck"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Alternative form of sneck"
],
"links": [
[
"sneck",
"sneck#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"alt-of",
"alternative"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/snɪk/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪk"
},
{
"homophone": "SNCC"
},
{
"audio": "en-au-snick.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg/En-au-snick.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/En-au-snick.ogg",
"tags": [
"Australia"
],
"text": "Audio (AU)"
}
],
"word": "snick"
}
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.