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Snack vs Sneck - What's the difference?

snack | sneck |

As nouns the difference between snack and sneck

is that snack is a light meal while sneck is a latch or catch.

As verbs the difference between snack and sneck

is that snack is to eat a light meal while sneck is to latch, to lock.

snack

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)
  • A light meal.
  • An item of food eaten between meals.
  • Derived terms
    * snack bar * snack food * snacker * snackette * snackery * snackless * snacky
    See also
    * munchies

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • to eat a light meal
  • to eat between meals
  • Derived terms
    * snack down

    Etymology 2

    See snatch (transitive verb).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A share; a part or portion.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • At last he whispers, "Do, and we go snacks ."
    (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

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    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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