Found 5 hits - Term: sneak, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sneak \sneak\ sn=ek, v. i. imp. p. p. sneaked
sn=ekt; p. pr. vb. n. sneaking. oe. sniken, as.
snimaccan to creep; akin to dan. snige sig; cf. icel.
snimackja to hanker after.
1. to creep or steal away or about privately; to come or go
meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to
sneak away from company.
1913 webster
you skulked behind the fence, and sneaked away.
--dryden.
1913 webster
2. to act in a stealthy and cowardly manner; to behave with
meanness and servility; to crouch.
1913 webster
see also:
sneaked sneaking
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sneak \sneak\, v. t.
to hide, esp. in a mean or cowardly manner. obs. "slander
sneaks its head." --wake.
1913 webster
- [3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sneak \sneak\, n.
1. a mean, sneaking fellow.
1913 webster
a set of simpletons and superstitious sneaks.
--glanvill.
1913 webster
2. cricket a ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; --
called also grub. cant --r. a. proctor.
1913 webster
see also:
grub
- [4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sneak
adj : marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to
avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a lurking
prowler"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a
surreptitious glance at his watch"; "someone skulking
in the shadows" syn: furtive, lurking, skulking,
sneaka, sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious
n 1: someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful
intentions syn: prowler, stalker
2: someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police syn:
fink, snitch, snitcher, stoolpigeon, stoolie, sneaker,
canary
v 1: to go stealthily or furtively; "..stead of sneaking around
spying on the neighbor's house" syn: mouse, creep,
steal, pussyfoot
2: put, bring, or take in a secretive or furtive manner; "sneak
a look"; "sneak a cigarette"
3: make off with belongings of others syn: pilfer, cabbage,
purloin, pinch, abstract, snarf, swipe, hook,
filch, nobble, lift
4: pass on stealthily; "he slipped me the key when nobody was
looking" syn: slip
also: snuck
see also:
furtive lurking skulking sneaka sneaky stealthy
surreptitious prowler stalker fink snitch
snitcher stoolpigeon stoolie sneaker canary
mouse creep steal pussyfoot pilfer
cabbage purloin pinch abstract snarf
swipe hook filch nobble lift
slip snuck
- [5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
84 moby thesaurus words for "sneak":
arrant coward, blackguard, caitiff, clandestine, couch, covert,
cower, craven, crawl, creep, cringe, crouch, cur, dastard, devil,
fink, furtive, glide, go on tiptoe, grass, grovel, gumshoe, heel,
hole-and-corner, hush-hush, inch, inch along, informer, knave,
lay wait, lie in wait, louse, lurk, nark, nightwalk, pad, poltroon,
precious rascal, prowl, pussyfoot, quail, rapscallion, rascal,
recreant, reptile, rogue, run, scalawag, scamp, scoundrel,
scrabble, scramble, shadow, shirk, shithead, shyster, sidle, skulk,
skunk, slide, slink, slip, slither, sly, smuggle, snake, sneaker,
snitch, snook, spalpeen, stalk, steal, steal along, stealthy,
stoolie, surreptitious, tippytoe, tiptoe, toad, undercover,
villain, weasel, worm, worm along
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