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 1877. Horsley, Jottings from Jail. We used to go and smug snowy that was hung out to dry.

Snowball, subs. (venery).—1. A seminal globule: see Cream and Letchwater.

d. 1680. Rochester [Works(1718), 87]. Priapus, squeez'd, one Snowball did emit.

2. (old).—A negro (Grose). Fr. boule de neige.

Snow-broth, subs. phr. (B. E.).—'Snow-water.' Also (modern) = cold lap (q.v.).

1603. Shakspeare, Meas. for Meas., i. 458. A man whose blood Is very snow-broth.

d.1796. Burns, Brigs of Ayr. In mony a torrent doun his sna-broo rowes.

1870. Judd, Margaret, i. 6. 'This is none of your snow-broth, Peggy,' said the mother; 'it's warming.'

Snub, verb. (B. E. and Grose).—To check, to rebuke.

See Snob.

Snub-devil, subs. phr. (old).—-A parson.

Snub-nose, subs. phr. (Grose).—'A short nose turned up at the end.'

Snudge, subs. (old).—1. A miser; a curmudgeon. Hence as adj. (snudge-like, Or snudging) = miserly, mean, crabby; as verb. = to grasp, to screw; snudgery = meanness.

1531-47. Copland, Hyeway to Spitel Hous. Scrapynge and snudgynge without ony cease.

1544. Ascham, Toxophilus, i. Your husbandry is more like the life of a covetous snudge that ofte very evill proves.

1553. Sir T. Wilson, Rhetorike. Snudgynge wittely rebuked she beeyng greved charged hym that he should saie she was such a pinchpeny as would sell her olde showes for mony.

1562. Lewick, Titus and Gisippus. What man wold judge Titus to have been such a snudge.

1577. Kendall, Floures of Epig. Thou deemst me in thy minde a sneekbill snudge unkinde.

1579. North, Plut., 135. This bribing wretch was forced for to holde A tippling boothe, most like a clowne or snuche.

1581. Hakluyt, Voyages, 1. 240. They may not say, as some snudges in England say, I would find the Queene a man to serue in my place.

1587. Holinshed, Descr. Ireland, iii. Snudging peniefathers would take him vp verie roughlie.

1597. Gerard, Herbal, Verses prefixed. Of his faire flowring brats she [Mother Earth] is no snudge.

1599. Nashe, Lenten Stuffe [Harl. Mis., vi. 147]. Their miserable snudgery.

1600. Dekker, Old Fortunatus [Anc. Drama (1814), iii. 124]. Snudges may well be called jailers.

1602. Heywood, How a Man may Choose a Good Wife from a Bad. My master is such an old snudge, he'll not lose the droppings of his nose.

1694. Motteux, Rabelais, v. xvi. We find that the filthy snudge is yet more mischievous and ignorant than these ignorant wretches here.

2. (old).—A thief concealing himself under a bed (B. E. and Grose).

Snudge-snout, subs. phr. (old).—A dirty fellow.

1606. Wily Beguild [Hawkins, Eng. Dr., iii. 303]. That puck-fist, that snudge-snout, that coal-carrierly clown.

Snuff, subs. (old).—The drainings of a glass; heel-taps (q.v.).

1641. Braithwaite, Penitent Pilgrim. Those very snuffs which your excess procured, would have been sweet drops to many who for want of drink have fainted.

Verb.—To be testy, easily offended: also to take snuff, or to snuff pepper: see Pepper. Whence in snuff =