Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To snivel.
- To submit tamely.
- To keep in subjection by tyrannical means.
- noun One who meanly subjects himself to the authority of another: as, “ye silly snool,” Ramsay.
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Examples
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Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool, [bashful, cringe]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Anyone who didn't bother to question male dominance was a snool; anyone who promoted it, a dickspeaker.
NYT > Home Page By SARA CORBETT 2010
qms commented on the word snool
Again with the Scots! If Sam Johnson was so distressed about their dominance of the British civil service how would he feel about this effort to take over the English language through the agency of Wordnik?
I must admit, however, that snool is a juicy word. If an onomatopoetic term for groveling is possible snool is it. “Snool, you scurvy dog, snool!”
Crouched humbly on his creepie stool
The wily Scot is nobody's fool.
With chin on his knees
He pretends he agrees,
He knows when to fight and to snool.
April 11, 2014
oroboros commented on the word snool
The urban dictionary has a rather racy definition which I doubt is in the OED.
April 25, 2014
Gammerstang commented on the word snool
(verb/noun) - To dispirit by constant chiding; or to depress the energies of life by excess of bodily toil . . . A poor pitiful fellow.
--Charles Mackay's Lost Beauties of the English Language, 1874
January 16, 2018