sneak

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. One who sneaks; one who moves stealthily to acquire an item or information.
2. The act of sneaking
3. A cheat; a con artist.
4. An informer; a tell-tale.
5. (obsolete) A ball bowled so as to roll along the ground; a daisy-cutter
6. (US) A sneaker; a tennis shoe.
7. A play where the quarterback receives the snap and immediately dives forward.
8. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis) Ellipsis of sneak preview

Verb

1. (intransitive) To creep or go stealthily; to come or go while trying to avoid detection, as a person who does not wish to be seen.
2. (transitive) To take something stealthily without permission.
3. (ditransitive) To stealthily bring someone something.
4. (dated, transitive) To hide, especially in a mean or cowardly manner.
5. (informal, intransitive, with-on) To inform an authority of another's misdemeanours.

Adj

1. (not-comparable) In advance; before release to the general public.
2. (not-comparable) In a stealthy or surreptitious manner.

Conceptos

chivato

soplón

birlar

afanar

enganchar

🪝

esconder

hurtar

quitar

robar

soplar

acusón

delator

gatear

informante

pillo

ratear

soplonear

infiltrado

guindar

moverse con sigilo

delizar

malsín

escabullir

atrapar

acusica

canario

chivarse

contrabandear

Sinónimos

creep

snitch

slink

steal

lurk

slip

stalk

pinch

sneaky

still hunt

prowl

surreptitious

nobble

stalker

lift

snitcher

shirk

sneaker

snarf

hook

🪝

steal up on

stealthy

stoolpigeon

glide

furtive

stool pigeon

crawl

tattletale

stoolie

swipe

fink

filch

squealer

nark

sneak in

mouse

🐭

cabbage

smuggle

rove

pussyfoot

prowler

abstract

purloin

canary

pilfer

skulk

hush-hush

heel

hangdog

backstairs

Traducciones

schleichen

piquer

strisciare

faucher

mouchard

se défiler

codardo

Petze

Petzer

petzen

esquitllar-se

glisser

escapolir-se

rapporteur

heranschleichen

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/sniːk/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: sniken

Heredado de inglés antiguo: snīcan

Cognado con danés: snige

Cognado con sueco: snika

Cognado con islandés: sníkja

In summary

Possibly from Middle English sniken (“to creep, crawl”), from Old English snīcan (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-West Germanic *snīkan, from Proto-Germanic *snīkaną (“to creep, crawl”), which is related to the root of snake. Compare Danish snige (“to sneak”), Swedish snika (“to sneak, hanker after”), Icelandic sníkja (“to sneak, hanker after”). Possibly related to snitch.