Definitions
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- adjective Resembling a
snipe (the bird) or some aspect of one.
Etymologies
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snipe + -like
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Examples
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The piggish snuffle might also be the sound they make when their long straight snipelike bills probe feelingly into the black mud, like a blind man’s stick, reaching after worms, seeing in the dark.
A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009
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