snonym.html - {v.} To block up or trap by much snow; keep inside, * /After the storm the farmer and his family were snowed in for three days./ * /The train went off the track and the passengers were snowed in for several days./

snonym.html - {n.}, {slang}, {informal} 1. Insincere or exaggerated talk designed to gain the favors of someone. * /Joe gave Sue a snow job and she believed every word of it./ 2. The skillful display of technical vocabulary and prestige terminology in order to pass oneself off as an expert in a specialized field without really being a knowledgeable worker in that area. * /That talk by Nielsen on pharmaceuticals sounded very impressive, but I will not hire him because it was essentially a snow job./

snonym.html - {v.} 1. To cover over with snow. * /The doghouse was snowed under during the blizzard./ 2. {informal} To give so much of something that it cannot be taken care of; to weigh down by so much of something that' you cannot do anything about it. - Usually used in the passive. * /The factory received so many orders that it was snowed under with work./ * /The disabled girl was snowed under with Christmas letters./

snonym.html - n.
1 a a person with an exaggerated respect for social position or wealth and who despises socially inferior connections. b (attrib.) related to or characteristic of this attitude.
2 a person who behaves with servility to social superiors.
3 a person who despises others whose (usu. specified) tastes or attainments are considered inferior (an intellectual snob; a wine snob).

snobbery n. (pl. -ies). snobbish adj. snobbishly adv. snobbishness n. snobby adj. (snobbier, snobbiest). [18th c. (now dial.) 'cobbler': orig. unkn.]

snonym.html - n.
S.Afr. a barracouta. [Afrik. f. Du., = PIKE(1), f. MLG snok, prob. rel. to SNACK]

snonym.html - v. & n.
Brit. sl. --v.

intr. (snogged, snogging) engage in kissing and caressing.

--n.

a spell of snogging. [20th c.: orig. unkn.]