Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To move along, being snugly wrapped up.
  • To save penuriously; be miserly or niggardly.
  • noun A miser, or a mean sneaking fellow.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb obsolete To lie snug or quiet.
  • noun obsolete A miser; a sneaking fellow.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete (intransitive) To lie snug or close to;
  • noun obsolete A miser; a sneaking fellow.

Etymologies

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Old English, related to snug

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Examples

  • Would Conrig even permit his secret snudge to testify, knowing that thereby his anonymity would be lost and his value forfeit?

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • I was at that time sixteen years of age, and had served Prince Heritor Conrig as a fledgling snudge and secret talent for four of them.

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

  • Review's ill-favoured phiz, we find that the filthy snudge is yet more mischievous and ignorant than these ignorant wretches here, since they

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • “I thought they’d help me be a better snudge,” the boy said tiredly.

    Conqueror's Moon May, Julian 2003

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  • "A thief who hides himself under a bed, in order to rob the house."

    - Francis Grose, 'The Vulgar Tongue'.

    September 12, 2008

  • Not to make many wordes (since you will needs know) the king saies flatly, you are a miser & a snudge, and he neuer hopt better of you.

    - Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller, 1594

    March 6, 2010

  • To pretend to do something while actually not.

    September 29, 2015