sneek.html - {v.}, {informal} To think of as not important; not take seriously. - Used with negative or limiting words and in questions. * /Mr. Jones was chosen by his party to run for President. He was not elected, but to be chosen to run is not to be sneezed at./ * /If you think Mrs. Green's tests are things to be sneezed at, you have a surprise coming./ * / Is a thousand dollars anything to sneeze at?/ * /John finished third in a race with twenty other runners. That is nothing to sneeze at./

sneek.html - n. & v.
--n.

a derisive smile or remark.

--v.

1 intr. (often foll. by at) smile derisively.
2 tr. say sneeringly.
3 intr. (often foll. by at) speak derisively esp. covertly or ironically (sneered at his attempts).

sneerer n. sneeringly adv. [16th c.: orig. unkn.]

sneek.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a sudden involuntary expulsion of air from the nose and mouth caused by irritation of the nostrils.
2 the sound of this.

--v.

intr. make a sneeze.

not to be sneezed at colloq. not contemptible; considerable; notable.

sneezer n. sneezy adj. [ME snese, app. alt. of obs. fnese f. OE -fnesan, ON fn°sa & replacing earlier and less expressive nese]

sneek.html - n.
a kind of yarrow, Achillea ptarmica, whose dried leaves are used to induce sneezing.

sneek.html - See: QUARTERBACK SNEAK.

sneek.html - See: SLIP AWAY.