sneck posset
English
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editsneck posset (plural sneck possets)
- (archaic, British) A fastened latch.
- (idiomatic, British) A cold reception, closing the door on a visitor
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edit- sneck posset, in Thesaurus of Traditional English Metaphors, by Peter Richard Wilkinson, 2002.
- sneck posset, in Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 1894, page 1155