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snatcht | snatchy |

As a verb snatcht

is (obsolete) (snatch).

As an adjective snatchy is

in snatches or glimpses.

snatcht

English

Verb

(head)
  • (obsolete) (snatch)

    • 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

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    snatchy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • In snatches or glimpses.
  • * 1902 , Amanda Minnie Douglas, A Sherburne quest (page 332)
    • We listen to a snatchy talk on one thing and then another, and abstruse questions that are like the Scotchman's definition of metaphysics.
  • * 1922 , G. Stanley Hall, Jesus, the Christ, in the Light of Psychology
    • The long-desired vision came first to Peter in Galilee in the morning twilight, and something of the kind perhaps happened to others; but of all this we have only garbled and snatchy reports.
  • * 1990 , Kan Yashiroda, Bonsai: Special Techniques (page 18)
    • In positioning the branches, remember that the foliage should be arranged to give snatchy views of the two trunks all the way to the top.