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Definition: Snaffle |
SnaffleNoun1. A simple jointed bit for a horse; without a curb. Verb1. Get hold of or seize quickly and easily; "I snapped up all the good buys during the garage sale". 2. Fit or restrain with a snaffle, as of horses. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snaffle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1607. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Sports & Leisure | The snaffle (also -- or --) is a simple mouthpiece, jointed or unjointed with a ring at each end for attachement to the bridle. The action is direct on the corner of the lips. . Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SnaffleSynonyms: snaffle bit (n), grab (v), snap up (v). (additional references) |
| Synonyms by domain: snaffled (sports & leisure). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Prison | Yoke, collar, halter, harness; muzzle, gag, bit, brake, curb, snaffle, bridle; rein, reins; bearing rein; martingale; leading string; tether, picket, band, guy, chain; cord; (fastening); cavesson, hackamore, headstall, jaquima, lines, ribbons. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Snaffle |
| English words defined with "snaffle": bridoon ♦ Pelham ♦ Snaffled, Snaffling. (references) |
| "Snaffle" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 68.75% of the time. "Snaffle" is used about 16 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) | 68.75% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 25% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.25% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 16 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "snaffle": snaffle bit ♦ snaffle up. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "snaffle": snaffle-bit, snaffle-bits, snaffle-printed. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
snaffle bit | 28 |
association bit national snaffle | 6 |
snaffle | 5 |
bit futurity snaffle | 3 |
snaffle thumb tom | 3 |
argentina snaffle | 2 |
snaffle bridle | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "snaffle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | tërheq frerin, kapistër (bridle, halter, headstall, rein, reins), fre (bridle, rein, reins). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | نشل (buy up, palm, pick, pinch, sneak, twitch), تحصل (gain, obtain, procure, secure, take out), إختلس (embezzle, misappropriate, palm, purloin, rob, scrounge, siphon, snatch, snitch, steal, subtilize), شكيمة (bit), شكم الجواد. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | слагам юздечка на, вид юздечка, отмъквам (carry away, collar, drag off, pilfer, pinch, rip off, scrounge, sneak, swipe, whip off), задигам (bag, carry away, filch, finger, grab, lift, mooch, nip, pinch, prig, run away with, scarp, scrounge, sneak, swipe, walk off with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 马"". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | otìž (rein), ohlávka (halter, headstall). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | tense. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | trens. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | nivelkuolain. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bridon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | trense. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κλέβω (cheat, elope, filch, nab, pick pockets, pinch, purloin, snitch, steal, thieve), υποχάλινοσ, χαλινάρι (bridle, curb, rein). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | zabláz (to curb), zabla (bit, curb, snaffle bit), elcsíp (got, nab, to corral, to get, to grab at, to grab for, to grab hold of, to nab, to nick, to nip, to snap). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | morso snodato, filetto (border, fillet, thread). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 재갈. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | goaill liorish bradeeys, beealraghyn. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | afflesnay bridão. (various references) украсть (crook, filch, nobble, pinch, steal, thieve, walk off with), уздечка (lore). (various references) staviti žvalu, staviti đem, konjski đem. (various references) filete (cincture, filet, fillet, rumpsteak, slice, steak, thread), bridón (bridoon), birlar (bone, knock down, knock off, lift, mooch, Nick, nobble, sneak, whip), afanar (agonize, sneak, toil). (various references) träns (braid, cord, galloon). (various references) สายห่วงรั"ปากม้า. (various references) yürütmek (collar, filch, go through with, hold down, lift, make away with, Nick, pilfer, prig, prosecute, purloin, pursue, push, scrounge, sneak, wage, walk, walk away with, walk off with), hafif gem vurmak, hafif gem (snaffle bit), aşırmak (abstract, bag, cop, crib, filch, help oneself to, hoist, hook, make off with, mooch, pass over, pilfer, prig, purloin, scrounge, snitch, steal, walk off with, whip). (various references) украсти (cop, filch, nab, nip, nobble, pilfer), спіймати (capture, catch, cop, get, hunt down, nobble, recapture, seize), трензель, вуздечка (bridle), вести за трензель, надіти вуздечку. (various references) cương ngựa không có dây cằm gượng nhẹ người n o. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Dutch | 700-Modern | snavel. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snaffle": snaffled, snaffles. (additional references) | |
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"Snaffle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: niffle, saffle, sniffil, sniffl. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-f-f-l-n-s" | |
-1 letter: flanes. | |
-2 letters: alefs, elans, false, fanes, flans, fleas, lanes, leafs, leans. | |
-3 letters: alef, ales, anes, effs, elan, fane, fans, feal, fens, flan, flea, lane, lase, leaf, lean, leas, lens, safe, sale, sane, seal, self. | |
-4 letters: aff, ale, als, ane, eff, efs, elf, els, ens, fan, fas, fen, las, lea, nae, sae, sal, sea, sel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-f-f-l-n-s" | |
+1 letter: snaffled, snaffles. | |
+2 letters: affluents. | |
+3 letters: affluences, insufflate. | |
+4 letters: affluencies, bafflements, fatefulness, fearfulness, insufflated, insufflates. | |
+5 letters: cliffhangers, faithfulness, fancifulness, faultfinders, insufferable, insufferably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 61 66 66 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -. .- ..-. ..-. .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01100001 01100110 01100110 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n a f f l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 0061 0066 0066 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53806772727871 |
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