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snick⋅er⋅snee

  [snik-er-snee]
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–noun
a knife, esp. one used as a weapon.
Origin:
1690–1700; var. (by alliterative assimilation) of earlier stick or snee to thrust or cut < D steken to stick 2 + snij(d)en to cut
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snick·er·snee   (snĭk'ər-snē')   
n.  

  1. A knife resembling a sword.

  2. Archaic The act of fighting with knives.


[Alteration of obsolete stick or snee, to cut and thrust in fighting with a knife, partial translation of Dutch steken of snijden : steken, to stab (from Middle Dutch; see steig- in Indo-European roots) + of, or + snijden, to cut (from Middle Dutch sniden).]
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