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 Adj. (common).—Drunk: see Screwed.

All snug, phr. (Grose).—All's quiet.

See Bug.

Snuggery, subs. (common).—A comfortable privacy: as a woman's boudoir, a man's smoking den, a bar-parlour.

1837. Dickens, Pickwick, xlv. 'Vere are they?' said Sam 'In the snuggery,' rejoined Mr. Weller.

1872. Eliot, Middlemarch, xvii. Knowing Mr. Farebrother was a bachelor he had thought of being ushered into a snuggery, where the chief furniture would probably be books.

1886. Field, 13 Feb. We in Meath had a pleasant time in Miss Murphy's snuggery.

1898. Pink'Un and Pelican. Give me the old-fashioned waiter who becomes a part and parcel of the house. Simpson's, and that older snuggery, the "Cheshire Cheese," have had many such.

Snyder (or Snider), subs. (old).—A tailor: see Trades.

c.1600. Weakest to Wall, i. 3. Beest thou a snyder? snip, snap, mette sheers.

So, adv. (colloquial).—1. Drunk: see Screwed. Also so-so.

1809. Malkin, Gil Blas [Routledge], 50. We drank hard, and returned to our employers in a pretty pickle, that is to say so-so in the upper story.

2. (conventional: women's).—Pregnant; lumpy (q.v.).

3. (Ibid.).—In courses, under repair (q.v.),

Intj. (colloquial).—A questioning reply to a positive statement: e.g., 'The King returns to town to-day' 'So?'

So-and-so, subs. (colloquial).—1. Somebody or something indefinite; and (2) in place of a thing forgotten, or which it is not desired to mention: e.g., Mr. So-and-so.

So long, intj. (common).—Good bye!

1902. Lynch, High Stakes, xxxii. I'm off for change of air Sow long. I'll see ye later.

So-so, adj. and adv. (colloquial).—Ordinary; mediocre; nothing to speak of.

1530. Palsgrave, Lang. Francoyse, 445. Tellement quellement, je me porte, so so.

c.1537. A Pore Helpe [Hazlitt, Early Pop. Poet., iii. 263], 300. A noble teacher, And so-so a preacher.

1595. Shakspeare, Two Gent., i. 2. 'What thinkest thou of the rich Mercatio?' 'Well of his wealth; but of himself, so-so.' Ibid. (1600), As You Like It, v. i. 29. So So is good, very good, very excellent good; and yet it it is not; it is but so-so.

d.1703. Pepys, Diary. She is a mighty proper maid, and pretty comely, but so-so; but hath a most pleasing tone of voice, and speaks handsomely.

d.1704. Brown, Works, 1. 173-4. Their outsides wondrous fine, their Pockets lined within but so-so.

c.1784. Dr. S. Parr [N. and Q., 7 S., x. 274]. Dr. Taylor read the service but so-so.

1797. Lamb, Correspondence, 'Coleridge,' xix. The remainder is only so-so.

1810. Rhodes, Bombastes Furioso. Only so-so. O, monstrous doleful thing!

1837. Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 73. That illustrious lady, who, after leading but a so-so life, had died in the odour of sanctity.

1857. F. Locker, Reply to a Letter. I trembled once beneath her spell Whose spelling was extremely so-so.

1888. Boldrewood, Squatter's Dream, vi. He had agreed  to sell this year's clip in the colony, as the washing and getting up were only so-so, and wool was high.

Soak, subs. (common).—1. A drinking bout; (2) a hard drinker: also soaker. As verb. = to