Talk:snatch

Where does the rude meaning (vulva) come from? I've seen one source claiming that it's derived from the older meaning 'a quickie' (from 'have a quickie' as a verb). But the modern sense is only attested back to the early 20th century, while the older one has been dead since the early 19th.

Requests for verification - kept
Kept. See archived discussion of April 2008. 06:00, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

Abduct (snatch a child)
Is this worth a separate sense, or does "grasp and remove quickly" cover it well enough? Equinox ◑ 18:03, 4 June 2015 (UTC)

RFV discussion: August–September 2019
Etymology 2 meaning "handle of a scythe" appears to be an input error for "snath". Not listed in other dictionaries; not in the English Dialect Dictionary or Scottish National Dictionary. But, perhaps we should look for cites before removing it.


 * I added this in 2013, from Webster 1913, but I can't now find it in Webster 1913 (I checked a few sites) so I agree it was probably my mistake, or an error in my source files. W1913 lists the forms snath, snead, sneed, sneath, sneeth, snathe, sned (the last one marked as Scottish and the others as used in England). Equinox ◑ 13:04, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

RFV-failed Kiwima (talk) 22:47, 1 September 2019 (UTC)