sned

English edit

Alternative forms edit

snid, sneed, snade, snedd (Scotland)

Etymology edit

From Middle English snid (attested only in the sense of saw and slaughter), from Old English snid, snide (“a cut, incision; cutting implement, saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *snidi; merging with Middle English snede (“a morsel, bite; scythe”), from Old English snǣd (“something cut off, morsel, bit; scythe handle”).

Noun edit

sned (plural sneds)

(Scotland) A cut, a cutting; a slash, a slight wound; a lopping or pruning.

Verb edit

sned (third-person singular simple present sneds, present participle snedding, simple past and past participle snedded)

(UK, dialect, transitive) To lop; lop or chop off.
Synonyms: snathe, snead

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sned”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams edit

Ends, NDEs, SEND, dens, ends, neds, send

Swedish edit

Alternative forms edit

sne (colloquial)

Etymology edit

From Old Swedish snedher. Related to snedd (“obliqueness, inclination”).

Pronunciation edit

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Rhymes: -eː

Adjective edit

sned (comparative snedare, superlative snedast)

at an angle (especially if neither horizontal nor vertical), oblique, askew, crooked
Tavlan är sned
The painting is crooked

Lägga huvudet på sned
Tilt one's head
(figuratively) skewed (uneven)
sned resursfördelning
skewed distribution of resources
(colloquial) angry (with), sour; in a very bad mood
Jag blir sned på honom när han uppför sig så där
I get angry with him when he behaves like that

Varför är du sned?
Why are you angry?

Declension edit

Inflection of sned
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative²
Common singular	sned	snedare	snedast
Neuter singular	snett	snedare	snedast
Plural	sneda	snedare	snedast
Masculine plural³	snede	snedare	snedast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular¹	snede	snedare	snedaste
All	sneda	snedare	snedaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Related terms edit

snedda (“move diagonally”)
snedknullad
snett (“obliquely, awry”) (adverb)

References edit

sned in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams edit

neds.

Yola edit

Etymology edit

From Middle English snede, from Old English snǣd.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /sniːd/

Noun edit

sned

The handle of the scythe.

References edit

Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 134