Middle English Dictionary Entry
snatted(e adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | snatted(e adj. |
| Etymology | From fnatted ppl. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
Of the nose: flattened.
Associated quotations
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)3.285 : Ȝe stryveþ for a man wiþ snatted [Higd.(2): snattede; L simis] nose.
- c1400(?a1300) KAlex.(LdMisc 622)6437 : Anoþere folk biside þere is Swiþe merueilous, jwys: Hij haue visages eue-long, And snatted [LinI: fnatted] nosen þat ben wrong.
- (1440) PParv.(Hrl 221)461 : Snattyd, or schor[t] nosyd: Simus.