Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
An underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practice; a sharper; a cheat. · Counterfeit money.
adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryDisparaging or derisive in an insinuative way. · Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.
Probably from a dialectal variant of snithe (“sharp, cutting, cold”). See snithe (adjective). Alternatively, possibly a metathetic corruption of Middle English snythand (“piercing (the heart), cold, biting”, literally and figuratively). More at snithe (verb). Compare typologically cutting, Russian ко́лкий (kólkij) (akin to коло́ть (kolótʹ)).
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- Inherited-form mentionsnythandenm · piercing (the heart), cold, biting
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