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Necked vs Snecked - What's the difference?

necked | snecked |

As verbs the difference between necked and snecked

is that necked is past tense of neck while snecked is past tense of sneck.

As an adjective necked

is having some specific type of neck.

necked

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (in combination) Having some specific type of neck
  • (nautical, archaic, of a treenail) Cracked.

    • Derived terms

    * black-necked screamer * grey-necked wood rail * pencil-necked * ring-necked parakeet * side-necked turtle * snake-necked turtle * stiff-necked * yellow-necked mouse

    Verb

    (head)
  • (neck)

    • snecked

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sneck)

    • sneck

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Northern England, Scotland) A latch or catch.
  • *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.
  • (Northern England, Scotland) The nose.
  • A cut.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To latch, to lock.
  • To cut.

    • Derived terms

    * sneck-bend * sneck lifter * sneck posset * sneckyeat * sneck up

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