snilch

present singular third person snilches · participle present snilching · participle past snilched · past snilched

1. intransitivetransitiveTo eye or look or spy at any thing attentively.

   "You snilching me, buddy?" Brando growled. "What the fuck does that mean?" Jimmy screamed. Brando lowered his voice another notch, "Ahh, you are snilching me! Giving me the glimp eye, are you?"

   2012 October 10, John Klawitter, Foul, Double Dragon Publishing, →ISBN

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   “[…] I got a hankering to see it meself, and when I found I had a little time before dinner, I piked downstairs and had a peery. And it was the lummiest place, sir—I never seen nothing like it. I was so took up with looking at everything, I forgot about dinner, till I snilched the clock and saw how late it was, and I broomed it to the servants' hall.”

   1994, Kate Ross, Cut to the Quick, →ISBN, page 122

   “There're whispers,” he said, his voice dropping. “Someone's snilching Nicco.” I stopped, the orange midway to my mouth, which had suddenly gone dry. “Snilching?” I said. That wasn't good. No one liked spies, but Nicco was pathological about them.

   2011, Douglas Hulick, Among Thieves: A Tale of the Kin, Penguin, →ISBN