Talk:snide

Snide is also a noun.
 * Then please do not hesitate to add a definition for it. --Eivind (t) 10:05, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

complex definition
this term had the most complex definition and had a definition for a noun as opposed to an adjective. Essentially, the word means insulting or nasty in a subtle, insinuative way (ex. sarcasm) as is proven by the following:

http://dictionary.infoplease.com/snide 65.31.103.28 18:27, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

RFV discussion: December 2013–May 2014

 * Rfv-sense: Sharp.
 * Rfv-sense: Characterised by low cunning and sharp practise.

Not in dictionaries:. Added in. --Dan Polansky (talk) 20:39, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I don't think I know what either of them means. Sharp has quite a few distinct meanings, and I don't know what 'sharp practise' is (though I can have a decent guess at what low cunning is). Mglovesfun (talk) 21:53, 26 December 2013 (UTC)
 * Note that there is already "4. Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.", so the low-cunning sense has to be cited as distinct from that. As for "sharp", I estimate it was intended in the physical sense in which "V" has a sharp point at the bottom in contrast to "U", since the diff above introduced an etymology tracing the word to . By the way, there is and sharp practice, albeit with "c". --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:13, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The noun practice is with a c; in the definition it's a misspelling. Mglovesfun (talk) 13:30, 27 December 2013 (UTC)
 * The two items I have sent to RFV seem to come from Century 1911, in which they form a single sense: "Sharp; characterized by low cunning and sharp practice; tricky; also, false; spurious". So the sense of "sharp" would probably be Wiktionary's "8. (colloquial) Illegal or dishonest. "--Dan Polansky (talk) 00:13, 28 December 2013 (UTC)


 * RFV failed: no quotations provided. Disclosure: I am the nominator. --Dan Polansky (talk) 09:02, 10 May 2014 (UTC)