snoke

English

Alternative forms

  • snook, snoak, snouk, snock
  • snooke, snooac, snouke, snowk (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English snoken, from Old Norse *snoka, from Proto-Germanic *snukōną (“to snuff, snuffle, sniff out”), from Proto-Germanic *snuk-.

Verb

snoke (third-person singular simple present snokes, present participle snoking, simple past and past participle snoked)

  1. (ambitransitive, dialectal) To sniff or smell; to sniff at; to poke around sniffing with the nose.
  2. (ambitransitive, dialectal) To sneak about; to spy on; to snoop.
  3. (ambitransitive, dialectal) To snort contemptuously; to scorn, despise.
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