snudge — English Dictionary

Verb

1. To save in a miserly manner; to hoard.

   Usage

   • also
   • Intransitive
   • Obsolete
   • Transitive
   • with the dummy pronoun it

   Examples

   Ill huſbandry trudgeth with vnthrifts about, / good huſbandry ſnudgeth for feare of a dout.

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   Manger ſon avoine en ſon ſac. To ſnudge it; or churliſhly to eat all his meat all alone; (from Moyles [mules], vvho haue bags of prouender hung ſo cloſe to their noſes, that none but themſelues can come at it.)

2. Also followed by along: to walk with one's head down; to walk with a stoop.

   Usage

   • dialectal
   • Intransitive
   • Obsolete

   Examples

   [T]o Snudge along, to go like an old Snudge, or like one vvhoſe Head is full of buſineſs, […]

Noun

1. A greedy, stingy person; a miser.

   Usage

   • Intransitive
   • Obsolete

   Examples

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   And thus your huſbandrye me thincke, is more like the life of a couetous ſnudge that ofte very euill preues, then the labour of a good huſbãde [husbande] that knoweth well what he doth.

   Hiſtories are no ſnudges in matters of note: […]

   Iſſue therefore forth amongſt good fellovvs, that vvill ſooner fight for thee, then thoſe ſnudges & miſerable cormorants that novv feede vpon thee.

2. A dishonest and sneaky person.

   Usage

   • Intransitive
   • Obsolete

   Examples

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   And in that ſlepe (me thought) I heard the tunes / Of ſullen paſſions apt for Funerals, / And ſaw my Fathers liueleſſe body borne / By Satyres: O I feare that deitie / Hath ſtolne him hence, that Snudge his deſtinie.

   […] I 'll lay Five Pounds to a Hazelnut, the foul Thief has the very Looks of Gripe-me-now. […] [T]hou 'rt the right; for if we but examin that treacherous Review's ill-favour'd Phiz, we find that the filthy Snudge is yet more mischievous and ignorant than these ignorant Wretches here; […]

Verb

1. To lie quiet and snug; to nestle, to snuggle.

   Usage

   • dialectal
   • Intransitive
   • Obsolete

   Examples

   to snudge over a fire

   Novv he vvill fight it out, and to the vvarres; / Novv eat his bread in peace, / And ſnudge in quiet: novv he ſcorns increaſe; / Novv all day ſpares.