Snatchiest vs Snatchest - What's the difference?
snatchiest | snatchest |
(rare) (snatchy)
* 1964 , , The Lion Hunt: A Pursuit of Poetry and Reality (Archon Books),
* 1998 August 29th (7:00am), “
(archaic) (snatch)
To grasp quickly.
To attempt to seize something suddenly; to catch.
To take or seize hastily, abruptly, or without permission or ceremony.
* Alexander Pope
To grasp and remove quickly.
* 1922 , (Virginia Woolf), (w, Jacob's Room) Chapter 2
* Thomson
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= To do something quickly due to limited time available.
* , chapter=10
, title= A quick grab or catch.
(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.
A vulva.
* 1962 , Douglas Woolf, Wall to Wall , Grove Press, page 83,
* 1985 , Jackie Collins, Lucky , Simon and Schuster, ISBN 0671524933, page 150,
* 2008 , Jim Craig, North to Disaster , Bushak Press, ISBN 0961711213, page 178,
As an adjective snatchiest
is superlative of snatchy.As a verb snatchest is
archaic second-person singular of snatch.snatchiest
English
Adjective
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- Poetry (save perhaps the very briefest, snatchiest) is an art of time. We cannot read it backwards, or to and fro, or round and round like sculpture or a picture.
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- LCM, looking fabulous as always, enters the room and upon spying the Pink Princess, dashes over and exclaims with great enthusiasm “Oh darling – that outfit makes you look like the world’s biggest snatch! It’s the snatchiest ever, sweetie!”
snatchest
English
Verb
(head)snatch
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) snacchen, snecchen, from (etyl) . Related to snack.Verb
- to snatch a kiss
- when half our knowledge we must snatch , not take
- "How many times have I told you?" she cried, and seized him and snatched his stick away from him.
- Snatch me to heaven.
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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 alsoDerived terms
* snatcher * purse snatcher * (l)Noun
(es)- The leftfielder makes a nice snatch to end the inning.
- I heard a snatch of Mozart as I passed the open window.
- 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 ?
- 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.
- “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 ?”