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snye

snye 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 snye

third-person singular presentsnyes
present participlesnying
past participlesnyed
pastsnyed

Questions about snye

What is snye the obsolete spelling of?
Snye is the obsolete spelling of sny.

Words near snye in the dictionary

  1. Snyder County
  2. Snyderbro
  3. Snyderbros
  4. Snyders
  5. Snyderverse
  6. snye
  7. snyes
  8. snying
  9. SNYs
  10. Snåsa
  11. Sněžka

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snye (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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