snaffled

Verb

snaffle (third-person singular simple present snaffles, present participle snaffling, simple past and past participle snaffled)

1. (transitive) To put a snaffle on, or control with a snaffle.
2. (broadly, figuratively, transitive) To quell or suppress.
   • Julian Joolby, when will you learn to snaffle your violent emotion?1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London
3. (transitive) To clutch by the bridle.
4. (informal, transitive) To grab or seize; to snap up.
   • “That was my inspiration back in 2005,” he says, snaffling his third roll.2026 April 18, John Thornhill, “Lunch with the FT: Dario Amodei”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3
5. (informal, transitive) To purloin, or obtain by devious means.
   • […] the Master at Arms, the senior member of the lower deck and chief policeman, was found to be drunk; he must have snaffled some of the crew's rum ration always kept closely guarded in a special locker […]2014, Geoffrey Bennett, The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands, 1914
6. (Norfolk, UK, archaic, intransitive) To talk foolishly.
   • In Norfolk, "jaffle" is used in the sense of idle discourse, of an indecent or malicious character; and a prating busybody is said to be "always a snaffling and jafflin about what don't concern him."1855, Notes and Queries, volume 11, page 391

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