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Snitch vs Crib - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between snitch and crib

is that snitch is to inform on while crib is to collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.

In british terms the difference between snitch and crib

is that snitch is a nose while crib is a bed for a child older than a baby.

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

    crib

    English

  • (Canada) A small raft made of timber.

    • Synonyms

    * (holiday home) bach (qualifier)

    Derived terms

    * crib mattress * crib sheet * crib death * crib board

    Verb

    (cribb)
  • To place or confine in a crib.
  • To shut up or confine in a narrow habitation; to cage; to cramp.
  • * I. Taylor
    • if only the vital energy be not cribbed or cramped
  • * Shakespeare
    • Now I am cabin'd, cribbed , confined.
  • To collect one or more passages and/or references for use in a speech, written document or as an aid for some task; to create a crib sheet.
    • I cribbed the recipe from the Food Network site, but made a few changes of my own.
  • To install timber supports, as with cribbing.
  • (obsolete) To steal or embezzle, to cheat out of.
    • It was very easy, Briggs said, to make a galley-slave of a boy all the half-year, and then score him up idle; and to crib two dinners a-week out of his board, and then score him up greedy; but that wasn’t going to be submitted to, he believed, was it?'' — Charles Dickens, ''Dombey and Son , 1848, Chapter 14.
  • (Indian English) To complain, to grumble
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1957 , author=L.P.Hartley , title=Hireling , chapter=xi , url= , isbn= , page=90 , passage=She calls on the neighbours, she's out half the time and doesn't answer the telephone, and when I start cribbing she just laughs.}}
  • To crowd together, or to be confined, as if in a crib or in narrow accommodations.
  • * Gauden
    • Who sought to make bishops to crib in a Presbyterian trundle bed.
  • (of a horse) To seize the manger or other solid object with the teeth and draw in wind.

    • Derived terms

    * cribber

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