sned

English

Alternative forms

• snid, sneed, snade, snedd (Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English snid (attested only in the sense of saw and slaughter), from Old English snid, snide (“a cut, incision; cutting implement, saw”), from Proto-West Germanic *snidi; merging with Middle English snede (“a morsel, bite; scythe”), from Old English snǣd (“something cut off, morsel, bit; scythe handle”).

Noun

sned (plural sneds)

1. (Scotland) A cut, a cutting; a slash, a slight wound; a lopping or pruning.

Verb

sned (third-person singular simple present sneds, present participle snedding, simple past and past participle snedded)

1. (UK, dialect, transitive) To lop; lop or chop off.

   Synonyms: snathe, snead

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sned”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Ends, NDEs, SEND, dens, ends, neds, send

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish snedher. Related to snedd (“obliqueness, inclination”).

Alternative forms

• sne (colloquial)

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -eː

Adjective

sned (comparative snedare, superlative snedast)

1. at an angle (especially if neither horizontal nor vertical), oblique, askew, crooked

   Tavlan är sned

   The painting is crooked

   Lägga huvudet på sned

   Tilt one's head

2. (colloquial) angry (with), sour; in a very bad mood

   Jag blir sned på honom när han uppför sig så där

   I get angry with him when he behaves like that

   Varför är du sned?

   Why are you angry?

Declension

Inflection of sned
Indefinite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative2
Common singular	sned	snedare	snedast
Neuter singular	snett	snedare	snedast
Plural	sneda	snedare	snedast
Masculine plural3	snede	snedare	snedast
Definite	Positive	Comparative	Superlative
Masculine singular1	snede	snedare	snedaste
All	sneda	snedare	snedaste
1) Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine. 2) The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative. 3) Dated or archaic

Related terms

• snedda (“move diagonally”)
• snett (“obliquely, awry”) (adverb)

References

• sned in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

Anagrams

• neds.

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Etymology

From Middle English snede, from Old English snǣd.

Noun

sned

1. The handle of the scythe.

References

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 134