Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo sniff or smell; to sniff at; to poke around sniffing with the nose. · To sneak about; to spy on; to snoop. · To snort contemptuously; to scorn, despise.
From Middle English snoken, possibly from Old Norse *snoka, from Proto-Germanic *snukōną (“to snuff, snuffle, sniff out”), from the root *snuk-, of uncertain origin. Compare sneak and snoop for the sound symbolism.
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