Subject: re: Getting Snickered

[Dennis R. Preston]

This "sneetered" was common in my speech and those around me for
"tricked," "deceived," "done in" (usually by subterfuge).

dInIs

>What is this "sneetered" you speak of ?
>
>JL
>
>"Dennis R. Preston" <preston at MSU.EDU> wrote:
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>L,
>
>This is not my sense of "snookered" (principally "cheated" or "done
>in by deceit," synonymous with "sneetered"). Partridge has it from
>1914, presumably from "snooks," an imaginary game devised by a
>practical joker, cited by Farmer and Henley from around 1800.
>Apparently unrelated to "cock a snook," the derisive gesture of
>thumbing the nose; this sense of "snook" is not attested until the
>end of the 19th C. I can't find my synonymous "sneeter" since neither
>DARE nor HDAS go that far.
>
>In short, I'm with the chocolate=feces interpretation of the Gitmo term.
>
>dInIs
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>>>Jerry E Kane wrote:
>>>  >>>
>>>  I just heard the expression on the Fox news channel. When a prisoner at
>>>Gitmo throws feces on a guard it is called "getting snickered".
>>>  <<<
>>>
>>>Might the term come from the chocolate candy bar called Snickers(tm)?
>>>
>>Are we assuming (I guess I am) that this is indeed an eggcorn in
>>which "get snookered" is reanalyzed by influence of the name of the
>>candy bar?
>>
>>L
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