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snatched | snitched |

As verbs the difference between snatched and snitched

is that snatched is past tense of snatch while snitched is past tense of snitch.

snatched

English

Verb

(head)
  • (snatch)

    • Anagrams

    * *

    snatch

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) snacchen, snecchen, from (etyl) . Related to snack.

    Verb

  • To grasp quickly.
  • To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch.
  • To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
    • to snatch a kiss
  • * Alexander Pope
    • when half our knowledge we must snatch , not take
  • To grasp and remove quickly.
  • * 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
    • "How many times have I told you?" she cried, and seized him and snatched his stick away from him.
  • * Thomson
    • Snatch me to heaven.
  • To steal.
  • (by extension) To take a victory at the last moment.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, work=BBC Sport
    • , title= Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd , passage=But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory, they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.}}
  • To do something quickly due to limited time available.
  • * , chapter=10
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.}}
    Synonyms
    * grab * See also
    Derived terms
    * snatcher * purse snatcher * (l)

    Noun

    (es)
  • A quick grab or catch.
    • The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning.
  • (weightlifting) A competitive weightlifting event in which a barbell is lifted from the platform to locked arms overhead in a smooth continuous movement.
  • A piece of some sound, usually music or conversation.
    • I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.
  • A vulva.
  • * 1962 , Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall , Grove Press, page 83,
    • Claude, is it true what they say about Olovia? Of course she’s getting a little old for us—what about Marilyum, did you try her snatch ?
  • * 1985 , Jackie Collins, Lucky , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671524933, page 150,
    • Roughly Santino ripped the sheet from the bed, exposing all of her. She had blond hair on her snatch , which drove him crazy. He was partial to blondes.
  • * 2008 , Jim Craig, North to Disaster , Bushak Press, ISBN 0961711213, page 178,
    • “You want me to ask Brandy to let you paint her naked body with all this gooey stuff to make a mold of her snatch ?”
    Synonyms
    * (vagina) cunt, twat

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (es)
  • The handle of a scythe; a snead.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Anagrams

    * *

    snitched

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (snitch)

    • snitch

    English

    Verb

    (es)
  • To steal, quickly and quietly.
  • To inform on.
  • (slang) To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.

    • 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 }}

    Synonyms

    * (informer) grass, mole, rat, stool pigeon