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snie

snie is the obsolete spelling of sny.

Meaning of sny

Verb (1)

sny (third-person singular simple present snies, present participle snying, simple past and past participle snied)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete, rare) To move, proceed.

Verb (2)

sny (third-person singular simple present snies, present participle snying, simple past and past participle snied)

  1. (dialectal, intransitive) Abound, swarm, teem, be infested, with something
    • “And did you kill it?”
      “I did, for they’re a nuisance. The place is fair snied wi’ ‛em.”1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 4”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC

See all 5 meanings of sny

Forms of snie

third-person singular presentsnies
present participlesnying
past participlesnied
pastsnied

Questions about snie

What is snie the obsolete spelling of?
Snie is the obsolete spelling of sny.

Words near snie in the dictionary

  1. Sniderman
  2. Sniders
  3. snides
  4. snidest
  5. snidey
  6. snie
  7. snied
  8. snies
  9. sniff
  10. sniff around
  11. sniff out

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: snie (page history and authors); sny (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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