Etymology

snoke

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Today it means: To sniff or smell; to sniff at; to poke around sniffing with the nose. Full definition →

Middle English snoken ← Old Norse *snoka ← Proto-Germanic *snukōną
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*snukōną“to snuff, snuffle, sniff out”
  2. Old Norse · derived from*snoka
  3. Middle English · inherited fromsnoken
  4. English todaysnoke

From Middle English snoken, possibly from Old Norse *snoka, from Proto-Germanic *snukōną (“to snuff, snuffle, sniff out”), from the root *snuk-, of uncertain origin. Compare sneak and snoop for the sound symbolism.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.