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snilching

snilching is the present participle and gerund of snilch.

Meaning of snilch

Verb

snilch (third-person singular simple present snilches, present participle snilching, simple past and past participle snilched)

  1. (intransitive, transitive) To eye or look or spy at any thing attentively.
    • “[…] I got a hankering to see it meself, and when I found I had a little time before dinner, I piked downstairs and had a peery. And it was the lummiest place, sir—I never seen nothing like it. I was so took up with looking at everything, I forgot about dinner, till I snilched the clock and saw how...1994, Kate Ross, Cut to the Quick, →ISBN, page 122

Questions about snilching

What is snilching the present participle and gerund of?
Snilching is the present participle and gerund of snilch.

Words near snilching in the dictionary

  1. snikt
  2. Sniktbub
  3. snilch
  4. snilched
  5. snilches
  6. snilching
  7. Snily
  8. snip
  9. snip-snap
  10. snip-snap-snorem
  11. snip-snap-snorum

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