Word Meanings - SNEAKY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a sneak; sneaking.

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• SNEAK
  1. To creep or steal privately; to come or go meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company. imp. & p. p. "snuck" is more common now, but not even mentioned here. In MW10, simply "sneaked or snuck" You skulked
• SNEAK CURRENT
  A current which, though too feeble to blow the usual fuse or to injure at once telegraph or telephone instruments, will in time burn them out.
• SNEAKING
  Marked by cowardly concealment; deficient in openness and courage; underhand; mean; crouching. -- Sneak"ing*ly, adv. -- Sneak"ing*ness, n.
• SNEAKY
  Like a sneak; sneaking.
• SNEAKSBY
  A paltry fellow; a sneak. "Such a bashful sneaksby." Barrow.
• SNEAKINESS
  The quality of being sneaky.
• SNEAK-CUP
  One who sneaks from his cups; one who balks his glass. Shak.
• SNEAKER
  1. One who sneaks. Lamb. 2. A vessel of drink. A sneaker of five gallons. Spectator.