Snick

Definition: Snick

Snick

Noun

1. A small cut.

2. A glancing contact with the ball off the edge of the cricket bat.

Verb

1. Hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat, in cricket.

2. Cut slightly, with a razor; "The barber's knife nicked his cheek".

Date "snick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1867. (references)

Synonyms: Snick

Synonyms: notch (n), nick (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Smallness	Small quantity, modicum, trace, hint, minimum; vanishing point; material point, atom, particle, molecule, corpuscle, point, speck, dot, mote, jot, iota, ace; minutiae, details; look, thought, idea, soupcon, dab, dight, whit, tittle, shade, shadow; spark, scintilla, gleam; touch, cast; grain, scruple, granule, globule, minim, sup, sip, sop, spice, drop, droplet, sprinkling, dash, morceau, screed, smack, tinge, tincture; inch, patch, scantling, tatter, cantlet, flitter, gobbet, mite, bit, morsel, crumb, seed, fritter, shive; snip, snippet; snick, snack, snatch, slip, scrag; chip, chipping; shiver, sliver, driblet, clipping, paring, shaving, hair.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Snick

English words defined with "snick": Snick up, Snicked, Snicking. (references)

Specialty definitions using "snick": Sneck Posset. (references)

Domain	Title
Theater & Movies	Snick, Vol. 1 - Nick Snicks Friendship (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Inquisitive fingers snick in and out and find the bolls.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Snick" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 75.00% of the time. "Snick" is used about 4 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	75%	3	202,518
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	25%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	4	N/A

Expressions using "snick": snick and snee ♦ snick up. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "snick": snick-snicked.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "snick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		dhëmbë (bit, teeth), cep (bight, cusp, horn, nook, projection, prominence, prominency, tip), bëj një të prerë (chamfer, notch), bëj dhëmb. (various references)

Arabic		‏قرقعة (click), ‏حزة, ‏حز (cut, girdle, invest, nick, notch, tap), ‏ضرب الكرة ضربة خفيفة. (various references)

Bulgarian		резка (cannelure), клъцване (snip), клъцвам (clip), лек удар настрана, белег (earmark, guide, impress, incision, marking, patent, peg, print, scar, seam, sign, stigma, sully, symptom, tincture, token, trace, vestige, weal, welt), первам леко топка настрана. (various references)

Czech		zářez (Dent, incision, kerf, Nick, notch, socket, tally). (various references)

French		petite entaille, juste toucher, faire une petite entaille, encoche. (various references)

German		schnitzen (carve, incise, to carve, whittle), schneiden (bite, carve, chop, clip, cross, crosscutting, cut, cut down, cutting, cutting edges, edit, finesse, harvest, incise, intersect, lance, meet, mow, Nick, pare, reap, scissor, shave, shear, slice, snub, to bite, to clip, to cut, to cutting edges, to scissor, to slice, trim), zupfen (pick, pluck, plunk, pull, rip, stretch, tear, twang, twitch, twitching), kerbe (dent, hack, incision, indent, indentation, nick, notch, score), auf kante schlagen. (various references)

Greek		χαρακιά (cut, Nick). (various references)

Hebrew		חריץ קטן. (various references)

Hungarian		bevágás (channelling, chase, cut, furrow, gorge, incision, indent, kerf, mortice, mortise, Nick, score, scotch, slit), rovátka (chase, cut, gouge, groove, indent, jag, nick, notch, notching, score, scotch), nyisszantás (snip), kis bevágás, kattanás (click), gubanc (matting, ravel, screw-up, snag, tangle), bemetszés (blaze, cut, furrow, indenture, nick, notch, scotch, slit, slot). (various references)

Manx		giarrey shuddyr, giarrey agg ayn. (various references)

Pig Latin		icksnay

Portuguese		pequeno ruído seco, incisão (cut, cutting, kerf, nick, score, scotch, slit), entalhe (cannelure, chase, croze, cutting, dent, fillister, furrow, gab, groove, hack, indent, indentation, indention, jag, jagg, kerf, mortice, mortise, nick, rabbet), cortar levemente a bola, abrir entalhes em. (various references)

Romanian		tãieturã (cleft, cut, cutting, furrow, gash, hack, kerf, louver, make, Nick, notch, scar, scission, scotch, section, set, slash, slit, style), tãia (amputate, ax, axe, butcher, cancel, carve, carve out, castrate, chop, clap, cleave, clip, crop, cross, Curdle, cut, cut on the bias, Dent, dissect, engrave, excise, exscind, fell, flench, foul, grave, hew, incise, intercept, kill, measure off, notch, notch off, pare, plough, prune, quarter, resect, rip, Rive, separate, sever, shear, shorten, shut the works down, slaughter, slay, slice, split, Square, stop, strike out, switch off), crestãturã (channel, hack, indenture, louver, Nick, notch, score, scotch, slash, slot), cresta (Dent, engrail, excise, Harrow, indent, jag, Nick, notch, round, score, scotch, slash, stripe, wound). (various references)

Russian		надрезать (incise, scotch), надрез (hack, incision, notching, scotch). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zasek (incision, kerf, nick, notch, score), zaseći (cut, incise, indent, notch, scarify, score, scotch), okrznuće, narezati (slice up), narez, caknuti. (various references)

Spanish		toque ligero (dab, felloe, tap, touch), tijeretear (snip), desviar ligeramente, corte (blade, break, circumcision, concision, court, cutting, drop, edge, failure, hack, haircut, incision, kerf, length, Nick, notch, outage, paring, put down, retinue, scarf, section), cortar (ax, axe, bar, behead, block off, Bob, break, break in, chop, clip, comminute, crop, cut, cut across, cut away, cut down, cut in, cut off, cut out, cut up, decapitate, detruncate, disbranch, excise, exscind, fell, hack, incise, intersect, joint, lop, lop away, lop off, lumber, mow, Nick, nip, open, pare, pick, pluck, prune, sever, shear, shear off, shear through, shut off, slice, slit, strike off, tear off, trim away, trim off, turn off, turn out, Whittle). (various references)

Swedish		liten skåra, göra en liten skåra i. (various references)

Thai		เสียงเ�"าะ, เล็ม (nibble, nip off), ทำให้เกิ�"เสียงคลิก, รอยตั�"เล็กๆ. (various references)

Turkish		kesmek (abandon, amputate, Bate, blunt, break, butcher, carve, cease, chaff, chop, chop off, clip, close, close down, crop, cut, cut back, cut off, cut out, deaden, disconnect, discontinue, dock, drop, dry up, excise, fair, fell, gash, give over, hack, hew, interrupt, intersect, kill, knife, lay off, lop, lop off, Nick, nick oneself, nip, nip off, occlude, pare, poll, prune, saw off, sever, shave, shear, shut down on, shut down upon, shut off, slash, slaughter, slice, slit, stanch, staunch, stem, stop, truncate, wrap it up, wrap up), kesik (broken, cut, disconnected, gash, incision, interrupted, off, scotch, slash, slit), çentmek (chip, hack, hew, indent, notch), çentik (chip, chippy, cutting, dint, hack, indent, indentation, jag, kerf, knurl, notch, score, tally). (various references)

Ukrainian		робити зарубку, частина (Cantle, dividend, half, part, portion, proportion, quantum, quotient, section, segment, share, side, strand), м'яч, посланий ковзним ударом, зарубка (dap, hag, kerf, notch, notching, score, wound), завдавати різкого удару, легкий ковзний удар по м'ячу, промайнути (flash, glance, glimpse, pass, pass off, shoot along, shoot forth, slip, streak). (various references)

Vietnamese		vết khía (gab). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "snick": snicked, snicker, snickered, snickerer, snickerers, snickering, snickers, snickersnee, snickersnees, snickery, snicking, snicks. (additional references)
	Words containing "snick": persnicketiness, persnicketinesses, persnickety. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Snick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Annick, isnik, sanisko, senick, Senwick, shick, smick, snaok, snec, snek, snic, snicke, snirk, snix, Srnecek, unick, zinck. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: nicks.
	Words within the letters "c-i-k-n-s"
	-1 letter: inks, kins, nick, sick, sink, skin.
	-2 letters: cis, ick, ink, ins, kin, sic, sin, ski.
	-3 letters: in, is, si.
	Words containing the letters "c-i-k-n-s"
	+1 letter: chinks, clinks, sicken, snicks.
	+2 letters: anticks, calkins, casking, catkins, cowskin, dickens, kinesic, nickels, nickers, nickles, pyknics, sacking, sickens, sicking, snicked, snicker, socking, sucking, unpicks, unstick.
	+3 letters: backings, backspin, buckskin, calfskin, canakins, canikins, capeskin, chewinks, chickens, chinooks, clinkers, cookings, coonskin, cowskins, crankish, crinkles, deckings, dornicks, duckpins, finbacks, ickiness, kachinas, katcinas, kinesics, kinetics, kingcups, kitchens, knickers, lickings, linstock, neckings, neckties, niblicks, nitpicks, nonstick, nudnicks, nutpicks, packings, pickings, quickens, sackings, sculking, shocking, shucking, sickened, sickener, sickling, sickness, slacking, slicking, smacking, smocking, snacking, snickers, snickery, snicking, specking, stacking, sticking, stickman, stickmen, stickpin, stocking, stricken, suckling, thickens, tickings, unsicker, unsticks, wickings, windsock, winnocks.
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