Snicketとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

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発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsnɪkɪt/
• 韻: -ɪkɪt

名詞

snicket (複数形 snickets)

1. (Northern England) A narrow passage or alley. [from 19th c.]
   • 1968, Barry Hines, A Kestrel for a Knave:

     He cut down a snicket between two houses, out into the fields.

   • 2018, Will Eaves, Murmur, Canongate 2018, p. 89:

     Our bikes are where we left them at the entrance to an overgrown snicket of yew, ivy and Hart's-tongue fern, through which a stream dribbles its way into the Ouse.

同意語

• See Thesaurus:alley