Meaning of Snitch | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A thief.
   slang
2. An informer, one who betrays their group.
   slang
3. A nose.
   British, slang
4. A tiny morsel.
5. A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.

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Examples

“'Yah, I wouldn't git a second-'and dress at a pawnbroker's!' 'Garn!' said Liza indignantly. 'I'll swipe yer over the snitch if yer talk ter me. [...] "”

“He added in conclusion that he strongly disliked the police coming and sticking its nose into his affairs and, since the horror which such actions inspired in him was not far from making him wish to vomit, he extracted from his pocket a silken square of the colour of the lilac flower (the one that isn’t white) but impregnated with Barbouze, the Fior perfume, and with it dabbed his snitch.”

“On one level clearly emblematic of her class status, “she’d have really looked down her snitch at me”), Virginia Woolf's nose, both Bennett and his audience would know, signifies as well the far more frightening power, the phallic power, attributed to women, strong women in particular.”

“‘Yes, I’m a witch! I wiggle my snitch![...]’”

“Bluenoze: Blow your nose to clear your snitch of whatever it is you've been snorting and read the postings again.”

“Question: do benign bacteria live in one's snitch and keep the other, nastier ones at bay ?”

“Have a perpetual dew drop hanging from your snitch”

“"He pays for the food you eat," said the woman. "Yeah," said the boy. "And I earn every snitch doing everything ever gets done around here."”

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