sneck up
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English[edit]
Verb[edit]
sneck up (third-person singular simple present snecks up, present participle snecking up, simple past and past participle snecked up)
- (obsolete) Be silent; shut up.
- c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
- We did keep time, sir, in our catches. Sneck up!
References[edit]
- “sneck”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.