"snilch" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /snɪlt͡ʃ/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-snilch.wav Forms: snilches [present, singular, third-person], snilching [participle, present], snilched [participle, past], snilched [past]
Rhymes: -ɪltʃ Head templates: {{en-verb}} snilch (third-person singular simple present snilches, present participle snilching, simple past and past participle snilched)
  1. (intransitive, transitive) To eye or look or spy at any thing attentively. Tags: intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-snilch-en-verb-YbPcPtwr Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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    {
      "form": "snilches",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snilching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snilched",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "snilched",
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          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Kate Ross, Cut to the Quick, →ISBN, page 122:",
          "text": "“[…] I got a hankering to see it meself, and when I found I had a little time before dinner, I piked downstairs and had a peery. And it was the lummiest place, sir—I never seen nothing like it. I was so took up with looking at everything, I forgot about dinner, till I snilched the clock and saw how late it was, and I broomed it to the servants' hall.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Douglas Hulick, Among Thieves: A Tale of the Kin, Penguin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“There're whispers,” he said, his voice dropping. “Someone's snilching Nicco.” I stopped, the orange midway to my mouth, which had suddenly gone dry.\n“Snilching?” I said. That wasn't good. No one liked spies, but Nicco was pathological about them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 October 10, John Klawitter, Foul, Double Dragon Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "\"You snilching me, buddy?\" Brando growled.\n \"What the fuck does that mean?\" Jimmy screamed.\n Brando lowered his voice another notch, \"Ahh, you are snilching me! Giving me the glimp eye, are you?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To eye or look or spy at any thing attentively."
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      "links": [
        [
          "eye",
          "eye"
        ],
        [
          "look",
          "look"
        ],
        [
          "spy",
          "spy"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, transitive) To eye or look or spy at any thing attentively."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪltʃ"
    }
  ],
  "word": "snilch"
}
{
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "snilching",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "snilched",
      "tags": [
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    },
    {
      "form": "snilched",
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        "Rhymes:English/ɪltʃ",
        "Rhymes:English/ɪltʃ/1 syllable"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1994, Kate Ross, Cut to the Quick, →ISBN, page 122:",
          "text": "“[…] I got a hankering to see it meself, and when I found I had a little time before dinner, I piked downstairs and had a peery. And it was the lummiest place, sir—I never seen nothing like it. I was so took up with looking at everything, I forgot about dinner, till I snilched the clock and saw how late it was, and I broomed it to the servants' hall.”",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Douglas Hulick, Among Thieves: A Tale of the Kin, Penguin, →ISBN:",
          "text": "“There're whispers,” he said, his voice dropping. “Someone's snilching Nicco.” I stopped, the orange midway to my mouth, which had suddenly gone dry.\n“Snilching?” I said. That wasn't good. No one liked spies, but Nicco was pathological about them.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 October 10, John Klawitter, Foul, Double Dragon Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "\"You snilching me, buddy?\" Brando growled.\n \"What the fuck does that mean?\" Jimmy screamed.\n Brando lowered his voice another notch, \"Ahh, you are snilching me! Giving me the glimp eye, are you?\"",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "To eye or look or spy at any thing attentively."
      ],
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          "look",
          "look"
        ],
        [
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          "spy"
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        "(intransitive, transitive) To eye or look or spy at any thing attentively."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
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