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snying

snying is the present participle and gerund of sny.

snying is the present participle and gerund of snie.

snying is the present participle and gerund of snye.

Noun

snying

  1. (obsolete) A curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel
  2. snying plank

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

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Words that rhyme with snying

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Questions about snying

What does snying mean?
Snying means a curved plank, placed edgewise, to work in the bows of a vessel.
What is snying the present participle and gerund of?
Snying is the present participle and gerund of sny.
What part of speech is snying?
Snying is a noun.

Words near snying in the dictionary

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

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