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Word Meanings - SNEAKSBY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A paltry fellow; a sneak. "Such a bashful sneaksby." Barrow.

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  • FELLOW-COMMONER
    A student at Cambridge University, England, who commons, or dines, at the Fellow's table.
  • FELLOWSHIP
    1. The state or relation of being or associate. 2. Companionship of persons on equal and friendly terms; frequent and familiar intercourse. In a great town, friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship which is in less neighborhods.
  • FELLOWSHIP; GOOD FELLOWSHIP
    companionableness; the spirit and disposition befitting comrades. There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee. Shak.
  • SNEAK
    1. To creep or steal privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked
  • SNEAK CURRENT
    A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
  • BASHFULNESS
    The quality of being bashful. Syn. -- Bashfulness, Modesty, Diffidence, Shyness. Modesty arises from a low estimate of ourselves; bashfulness is an abashment or agitation of the spirits at coming into contact with others; diffidence is produced
  • FELLOW-FEELING
    1. Sympathy; a like feeling. 2. Joint interest. Arbuthnot.
  • FELLOWLIKE
    Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. Udall.
  • FELLOWLY
    Fellowlike. Shak.
  • SNEAKING
    Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.
  • SNEAKY
    Like a sneak; sneaking.
  • BARROW
    A heap of rubbish, attle, etc. (more info) mound; akin to G. berg mountain, Goth. bairgahei hill, hilly country, and perh. to Skr. b high, OIr. brigh mountain. Cf. Berg, Berry a 1. A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead;
  • BASHFULLY
    In a bashful manner.
  • BARROWIST
    A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
  • FELLOW
    companionship, prop., a laying together of property; fe property + lag a laying, pl. lög law, akin to liggja to lie. See Fee, and Law, 1. A companion; a comrade; an associate; a partner; a sharer. The fellows of his crime. Milton. We are fellows
  • SNEAKSBY
    A paltry fellow; a sneak. "Such a bashful sneaksby." Barrow.
  • PALTRY
    Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold. Cowper. The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost. Byron. Syn. -- See Contemptible. (more info) E. paltry refuse, rubbish, LG. paltering ragged,
  • FELLOW-CREATURE
    One of the same race or kind; one made by the same Creator. Reason, by which we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes. I. Watts.
  • BASHFUL
    1. Abashed; daunted; dismayed. 2. Very modest, or modest excess; constitutionally disposed to shrink from public notice; indicating extreme or excessive modesty; shy; as, a bashful person, action, expression. Syn. -- Diffident; retiring; reserved;
  • SNEAKINESS
    The quality of being sneaky.
  • UNBASHFUL
    Not bashful or modest; bold; impudent; shameless. Shak.
  • BEDFELLOW
    One who lies with another in the same bed; a person who shares one's couch.
  • HANDBARROW
    A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
  • UNFELLOWED
    Being without a fellow; unmatched; unmated. Shak.
  • DISFELLOWSHIP
    To exclude from fellowship; to refuse intercourse with, as an associate. An attempt to disfellowship an evil, but to fellowship the evildoer. Freewill Bapt. Quart.
  • ODD FELLOW
    A member of a secret order, or fraternity, styled the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, established for mutual aid and social enjoyment.
  • PEWFELLOW
    1. One who occupies the same pew with another. 2. An intimate associate; a companion. Shak.
  • GOOD-FELLOWSHIP
    Agreeable companionship; companionableness.
  • PLAYFELLOW
    A companion in amusements or sports; a playmate. Shak.

 

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