Etymology

snee

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First used 17th century
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The story

Compare Dutch snee, snede, and German Schneide.

First known use, by meaning

  • 17th century Obsolete spelling of sny (“to abound, swarm, teem, be infested”) .

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.