sneckとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /snɛk/
• 韻: -ɛk

名詞

sneck (plural snecks)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A latch or catch.
   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus, published 2014, page 2:

     Lydia jerked about with the blind, fixing it first in one little sneck and then another, finally pulling it right to the bottom and pressing the button into the little brass hole.

   • 1980, JL Carr, A Month in the Country, Penguin, published 2010, page 3:

     The graveyard wall was in good repair, although, surprisingly, the narrow gate's sneck was smashed and it was held-to by a loop of binder twine.

2. (Northern England, Scotland) The nose.
3. A cut.

派生語

動詞

sneck (third-person singular simple present snecks, present participle snecking, simple past and past participle snecked)

1. (transitive) To latch, to lock.
2. (transitive) To cut.

派生語

参照

• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “SNECK”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “sneck”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin, “sneck”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 5 September 2024.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• “Sneck”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎, archived from the original on 5 September 2024, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

アナグラム

• Encks, necks