Noun

(slang) situation

* 2005 , Lois H. Gresh & Robert E. Weinberg, The science of supervillains , John Wiley and Sons, page 1:

So here's the sitch : Bruce Banner and Betty Ross Talbot are falling from roughly eight miles high.

* 2007 , George Bennett Fain, Pandora's Box , Lulu.com, page 159:

Valeska had insisted 'she' stay, sleep where it was definitely safe. Just 'til the sitch could be settled.

* 2008 , Editors of TEEN magazine, Teen Uncover the Real You: A Quiz Book , Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., page 2:

Maybe one is more introspective and the other is more outgoing. Whatever the sitch , you two balance each other out.

English clippings

Noun

(es)

A thief.

An informer, usually one who betrays his group.

(rft-sense) (British) A nose.

* 1897 , W.S. Maugham, , chapter 1

'Yah, I wouldn't git a second-'and dress at a pawnbroker's!'

'Garn!' said Liza indignantly. 'I'll swipe yer over the snitch if yer talk ter me. [...] "

* {{quote-book

, year=1960 , year_published=2001 , publisher=Penguin Classics , author=Barbara Wright (tr.) , by=Raymond Queneau , title=Zazie in the metro , original=Zazie dans le métro citation , isbn=9780142180044 , page=96 , passage=He added in conclusion that he strongly disliked the police coming and sticking its nose into his affairs and, since the horror which such actions inspired in him was not far from making him wish to vomit, he extracted from his pocket a silken square of the colour of the lilac flower (the one that isn’t white) but impregnated with Barbouze, the Fior perfume, and with it dabbed his snitch .}}

* {{quote-book

, year=1978 , year_published=1999 , publisher=University of Chicago Press , author=Brenda R. Silver , quotee=Alan Bennett , title=Virginia Woolf icon , section=Take Seven: British Graffiti: Me ,I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf'' and ''Sammy And Rosie Get Laid citation , isbn=9780226757452 , page=158 , passage= On one level clearly emblematic of her class status, “she’d have really looked down her snitch at me”), Virginia Woolf's nose, both Bennett and his audience would know, signifies as well the far more frightening power, the phallic power, attributed to women, strong women in particular.}}

* {{quote-book

, year=1994 , publisher=HarperCollins , author=Christine Marion Fraser , title=Noble Beginnings citation , isbn=9780002241014 , page=74 , passage=‘Yes, I’m a witch! I wiggle my snitch![...]’}}

* {{quote-newsgroup

, year=1999 , date=September 27 , author="billy" , title=Re: Babies Having Babies , newsgroup=uk.media.tv.misc citation , passage=Bluenoze: Blow your nose to clear your snitch of whatever it is you've been snorting and read the postings again.}}

* {{quote-newsgroup

, year=1999 , date=March 26 , author=G Greenway , title=Re: aah-cho!! , newsgroup=alt.gothic citation , passage=Question: do benign bacteria live in one's snitch and keep the other, nastier ones at bay ?}}

* {{quote-newsgroup

, year=2001 , date=July 27 , author=catmandoo , title=Re: Please help me to be 'correct'. , newsgroup=uk.local.isle-of-wight citation , passage=Have a perpetual dew drop hanging from your snitch }}