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Definition of 'snag'English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .
Noun
( en-noun)
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch; a knot; a protuberance.
* Dryden
- The coat of arms / Now on a naked snag in triumph borne.
Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
A tooth projecting beyond the rest; a broken or decayed tooth.
- (Prior)
A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
(figuratively) A problem or difficulty with something.
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A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
One of the secondary branches of an antler.
Synonyms
* (problem or difficulty) hitch
Derived terms
* snaggy
* snaglike
Verb
( snagg)
To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
- Be careful not to snag your stockings on that concrete bench!
(fishing) To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
- We snagged for spoonbill from the eastern shore of the Mississippi river.
(slang) To obtain or pick up (something).
- Ella snagged a bottle of water from the fridge before leaving for her jog.
(UK|dialect) To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
- (Halliwell)
Etymology 2
Noun
( en-noun)
(UK|dialect|obsolete) A light meal.
(Australia|informal|colloquial) A sausage.
* 2005 , Peter Docker, Someone Else?s Country , 2010, ReadHowYouWant, page 116 ,
- I fire up the barbie and start cooking snags .
* 2007 , Jim Ford, Don't Worry, Be Happy: Beijing to Bombay with a Backpack , page 196 ,
- ‘You can get the chooks and snags from the fridge if you want,’ he replied.
- I smiled, remembering my bewilderment upon receiving exactly the same command at my very first barbecue back in Sydney a month after I?d first arrived.
* 2010 , Fiona Wallace, Sense and Celebrity , page 25 ,
- ‘Hungry? We?ve got plenty of roo,’ one of the men said as she walked up. He pointed with his spatula, ‘and pig snags', cow ' snags , beef and chicken.’
Synonyms
* (sausage) banger (qualifier)
Etymology 3
Noun
( en-noun)
A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
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Similar to 'snag'song, sing, sang, sung, swing, swung, smog, snog, snug, smeg, swang, smug, sheng, suing, snig, snigg, sying
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