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foresnaffles

foresnaffles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foresnaffle.

Meaning of foresnaffle

Verb

foresnaffle (third-person singular simple present foresnaffles, present participle foresnaffling, simple past and past participle foresnaffled)

  1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To restrain; prohibit.
    • Had I not foresnaffled my mind by votarie promise Not to yoke in wedlock too no wight earthly my person, When my first feloship by murther beastly was eended, Had I not such daliaunce, such pipling bed gle renounced, Haply this one faultie […]1844, The Gentleman's Magazine, volumes 176-177, page 606
    Synonyms:
    withstrain, prohibit

Questions about foresnaffles

What is foresnaffles the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Foresnaffles is the third-person singular simple present indicative of foresnaffle.

Words near foresnaffles in the dictionary

  1. foresmell
  2. foresmelling
  3. foresmells
  4. foresnaffle
  5. foresnaffled
  6. foresnaffles
  7. foresnaffling
  8. foresnatch
  9. foresnatching
  10. foresong
  11. foresongs

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