different between sneck vs snib

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sn?k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

sneck (plural snecks)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A latch or catch.
   • 1978, Jane Gardam, God on the Rocks, Abacus 2014, p. 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 2010, p. 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.

Verb

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.

Derived terms

References

• Frank Graham (1987) The New Geordie Dictionary, ?ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, ?ISBN
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

Anagrams

• Encks, necks

Scots

Verb

sneck (third-person singular present snecks, present participle sneckin, past sneckt, past participle sneckt)

1. to click (with a computer mouse)

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sn?b/

Noun

snib (plural snibs)

1. (Scotland, Australia) A latch or fastening for a door, window etc.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 99:

     He did not like me coming in except if I was going to bed. I heard him saying to my maw about a snib for the door.

2. (obsolete) A reprimand; a snub.
   • 1601, John Marston, What You Will

     ill - strain'd snibs

Verb

snib (third-person singular simple present snibs, present participle snibbing, simple past and past participle snibbed)

1. (Scotland, Australia) To latch (a door, window etc.).
   • 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four, VI:

     ‘Window is snibbed on the inner side. Frame-work is solid. No hinges at the side. Let us open it.’

Anagrams

• ISBN, NiSb, bins, nibs