Stied vs Snied - What's the difference?
stied | snied |
(sty)
A pen or enclosure for swine.
(figurative) A messy, dirty or debauched place.
* Milton
To place in, or as if in, a sty.
To live in a sty, or any messy or dirty place.
(label) To ascend, rise up, climb.
* 1395 , (John Wycliffe), Bible , Isaiah LIII:
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.xi:
A ladder.
(label) An inflammation of the eyelid.
(sny)
(snie)
(obsolete, rare, intransitive) (l), (l)
??†?Sny,''' ''v.''?''Obs.''?—?1?In 5 '''sny?e.'''?[Of obscure origin.]?''intr.''?To move, proceed.?[¶?''a''?'''1400–50 ''Alexander 4095 Þan sny?es þar, out of þat snyth hill.., A burly best. * “ , (l), (l), be (l), with (l).
* 1913 ,
??Sny''' (), ''v.''?Now ''dial.''?Forms: 7 '''snithe,''' 9 '''snive;''' 7, 9 '''snie,''' 8–9 '''sny,''' 9 '''snye;''' 7, 9 '''snee.'''?[Of obscure origin.]?''intr.''?To abound, swarm, teem, be infested, ''with'' something.?[¶?'''1674''' Ray ''N.C. Words'' 44 To ''Snee'' or ''snie'', to abound or swarm. He ''snies'' with Lice, he swarms with them.?'''1675''' V. Alsop ''Anti-sozzo'' 503 Certainly never did man so snithe with prejudices against Truth.?''c''?'''1746''' J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) ''View Lanc. Dial.'' Gloss., ''Snye'', to swarm.?'''1849''' Howitt ''Year Bk. Country'' 242/32 The villages in the forest sny with children.?'''1882''' ''Echo'' 16 Jan. 4/1 The place literally ‘snives’ with rabbits.?'''1897 J. Prior ''Ripple & Flood xix, The watter snies wi’ fish. * “ (shipbuilding) of a wooden (l) or (l).
# An upward (l) at the (l) of a plank.
# of a wooden (l) from (l) toward its (l) and its (l).
??Sny''' (), ''sb.''?''Shipbuilding.''?[Cf. Snying ''vbl. sb.'']?(See quots. 1846 and 1875.)?[¶]?'''a.'''?'''1711''' W. Sutherland ''Shipbuild. Assist.'' 54 In working up a round Buttock of a Ship, the lower Edge of the Planks will have a sudden Sny aft.?'''1846''' A. Young ''Naut. Dict.'' 288 In shipbuilding, a plank is said to have sny, when its edge has an upward curve.?[¶?'''b.'''?''c''?'''1850''' ''Rudim. Nav.'' (Weale) 149 The great sny occasioned in full bows..is..to be prevented by introducing steelers.?'''1875 Knight ''Dict. Mech.'' 2232/1 ''Sny ,..the trend of the lines of a ship upward from amidship toward the bow and the stern. * “
* 1893 , and Other Stories (1896),
* 1948 , ), volume 36,
As verbs the difference between stied and snied
is that stied is past tense of sty while snied is past tense of sny.stied
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*sty
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(sties)- To roll with pleasure in a sensual sty .
Synonyms
* (enclosure for swine) pigpen, pigsty * (messy or dirty place) hovel, pigstyVerb
(en-verb)- (Shakespeare)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), .Alternative forms
* stee, stie, stighVerb
- And he schal stie as a ?erde bifor him, and as a roote fro þirsti lond.
- The beast impatient of his smarting wound, / And of so fierce and forcible despight, / Thought with his wings to stye aboue the ground [...].
Derived terms
* *Noun
(sties)Etymology 3
Probably a .Alternative forms
* styeNoun
(sties)snied
English
Verb
(head)sny
English
Etymology 1
First attested in late Middle English; from the (etyl)Verb
References
* “†?Sny, v.'']” listed on page 343 of volume IX, part I (Si–St) of '''' [1st ed., 1919]
??†?Sny,''' ''v.''?''Obs.''?—?1?In 5 '''sny?e.'''?[Of obscure origin.]?''intr.''?To move, proceed.?[¶?''a''?'''1400–50 ''Alexander 4095 Þan sny?es þar, out of þat snyth hill.., A burly best. * “
†sny, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989
Etymology 2
First attested in 1674; its etymology is unknown.Alternative forms
* ) * (l), sny, (l) * (l)Verb
- “And did you kill it?”
“I did, for they’re a nuisance. The place is fair snied wi’ ?em.”
References
* “Sny, v.'']” listed on page 343 of volume IX, part I (Si–St) of ''A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles'' [1st ed., 1919]
??Sny''' (), ''v.''?Now ''dial.''?Forms: 7 '''snithe,''' 9 '''snive;''' 7, 9 '''snie,''' 8–9 '''sny,''' 9 '''snye;''' 7, 9 '''snee.'''?[Of obscure origin.]?''intr.''?To abound, swarm, teem, be infested, ''with'' something.?[¶?'''1674''' Ray ''N.C. Words'' 44 To ''Snee'' or ''snie'', to abound or swarm. He ''snies'' with Lice, he swarms with them.?'''1675''' V. Alsop ''Anti-sozzo'' 503 Certainly never did man so snithe with prejudices against Truth.?''c''?'''1746''' J. Collier (Tim Bobbin) ''View Lanc. Dial.'' Gloss., ''Snye'', to swarm.?'''1849''' Howitt ''Year Bk. Country'' 242/32 The villages in the forest sny with children.?'''1882''' ''Echo'' 16 Jan. 4/1 The place literally ‘snives’ with rabbits.?'''1897 J. Prior ''Ripple & Flood xix, The watter snies wi’ fish. * “
sny, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989
Etymology 3
First attested in 1711; its etymology is unknown; compare snying and the (etyl) .Noun
(snies)References
* “Sny, sb.'']” listed on page 343 of volume IX, part I (Si–St) of ''A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles'' [1st ed., 1919]
??Sny''' (), ''sb.''?''Shipbuilding.''?[Cf. Snying ''vbl. sb.'']?(See quots. 1846 and 1875.)?[¶]?'''a.'''?'''1711''' W. Sutherland ''Shipbuild. Assist.'' 54 In working up a round Buttock of a Ship, the lower Edge of the Planks will have a sudden Sny aft.?'''1846''' A. Young ''Naut. Dict.'' 288 In shipbuilding, a plank is said to have sny, when its edge has an upward curve.?[¶?'''b.'''?''c''?'''1850''' ''Rudim. Nav.'' (Weale) 149 The great sny occasioned in full bows..is..to be prevented by introducing steelers.?'''1875 Knight ''Dict. Mech.'' 2232/1 ''Sny ,..the trend of the lines of a ship upward from amidship toward the bow and the stern. * “
sny, n.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989
Etymology 4
First attested with this spelling in 1893; see snye.Noun
(snies)page unknown
- “Well, Mars Tom, my idea is like dis. It ain’t no use, we can’t kill dem po’ strangers dat ain’t doin’ us no harm, till we’ve had practice?—?I knows it perfectly well, Mars Tom?—??deed I knows it perfectly well. But ef we takes a’ ax or two, jist you en me en Huck, en slips acrost de river to-night arter de moon’s gone down, en kills dat sick fam’ly dat’s over on the Sny , en burns dey house down, en?—”
page 151
- The word snye'', ''sny'' or ''snie has been used for many years to describe a channel behind an island, with slack current or partly dried, or some such similar feature.
References
* “snye]” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd ed., 1989