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snavels

snavels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of snavel.

Meaning of snavel

Verb

snavel (third-person singular simple present snavels, present participle (US) snaveling or (UK) snavelling, simple past and past participle (US) snaveled or (UK) snavelled)

  1. To steal; to pickpocket.
    • Then he missed his silk handkerchief. “Ghost!” he said, breathing heavily. “Mag′s snavelled it! […] ”1902, Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies, 2009, Sydney University Press, page 59
  2. (Australia, New Zealand) To snatch.
    • Paul tried to snavel Dan′s chair from under him.

Questions about snavels

What is snavels the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Snavels is the third-person singular simple present indicative of snavel.

Words near snavels in the dictionary

  1. snausage
  2. snausages
  3. snavel
  4. snavelled
  5. snavelling
  6. snavels
  7. Snavely
  8. Snavelys
  9. Snay
  10. Snays
  11. snazz up

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snavels (page history and authors); snavel (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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