what does it mean when something is sneckit ? ....
sneckit
Sep 25, 2020
Last reply: 5 years ago
27 Replies
Locked?
To me it means 'extinguished'.
Bill
Wel that makes it useless, if different people have differing definitions.
I'd thought it meant damaged in some way. But like all dialect can mean different things depending on the part of the country.
Has the doctor said Jim's brain is sceckit?
Dyslexic (American) name for Marathon bars ?
What brain ?
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is the closest I got.
I don't think it is a word, and certainly not in common parlance.
Locked.
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A snicket/snickit used to be the word for a narrow shortcut between houses or gardens etc..
scectik ? ...no
on 25/09/2020, Clive Arthur supposed :
I have heard of sneck being used for the name of a simple door latch.
It is a great Scottish word .... when you say is that snecked ? you are saying has the snib caught ?....or is that window snecket ...is that window locked...great word
can be
that's not very nice ...
From the same dictionary entry I would get the expression (1950s London) "on the sneck" meaning fixed open of a yale lock or similar so it dd not lock when the door shut.
OTOH the following gives a Scottish meaning similar to the English "nicked" in the sense of a small cut:
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could be the English usage....
you would in Scotland....
made to shut up
that is it,,,great word
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