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foresnatch

foresnatch verb: to snatch in advance.

Verb

foresnatch (third-person singular simple present foresnatches, present participle foresnatching, simple past and past participle foresnatched)

  1. (UK, dialectal, rare, transitive) To snatch in advance.
    • Friends of the people! — glorious name, indeed, If these bestow, not you foresnatch, the meed — Your motive, not your means, the Muse admires, Whom kindred aims — congenial zeal inspires; [...]1803, Josiah Walker, The defence of order, a poem
    • [...] at once reach the objects of her infant admiration and draw them nearer to her eagerness, then ran with pouting lips to foresnatch her father's kisses.1825, Mac-Erin O'Tara (pseud.), Thomas Fitz-Gerald: the Lord of Offaley

Forms of foresnatch

third-person singular presentforesnatches
present participleforesnatching
past participleforesnatched
pastforesnatched

Origin of foresnatch

From fore- + snatch.

Questions about foresnatch

What does foresnatch mean?
Foresnatch means to snatch in advance.
What part of speech is foresnatch?
Foresnatch is a verb.
What is the past tense of foresnatch?
The past tense of foresnatch is foresnatched.

Words near foresnatch in the dictionary

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

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