thumb the nose

[Wilson Gray]

Well, there was the old WWII radio show, Baby Snooks, in which
"snooks" is obviously a clip of "snookums," unless "snookums," of
course, be an extension of "snooks."

-Wilson

On Fri, May 14, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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> At 1:48 PM -0400 5/14/10, Dan Goncharoff wrote:
>>I remember it as "cocking a snoot".
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>>DanG
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> Either way, easier than cooking a snout.
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> LH
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>>On 5/14/2010 9:20 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
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>>>I think George means "cocking a snook."
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-Wilson
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