snag

Senso (English)

Noun

1. A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
2. A dead tree that remains standing.
3. A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
4. Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
5. A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
6. A problem or difficulty with something.
7. A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth.
8. One of the secondary branches of an antler.

Verb

1. To catch or tear (e.g. fabric) upon a rough surface or projection.
2. To damage or sink (a vessel) by collision; said of a tree or branch fixed to the bottom of a navigable body of water and partially submerged or rising to just beneath the surface.
3. To fish by means of dragging a large hook or hooks on a line, intending to impale the body (rather than the mouth) of the target.
4. (slang) To obtain or pick up, especially in a quick or surreptitious way.
5. To cut the snags or branches from, as the stem of a tree; to hew roughly.
6. (slang) To have noncommittal sexual relations.

Synonyms

hitch

catch

difficulty

trouble

hook

🪝

grab

stub

hassle

rip

stump

tear

split

obstacle

problem

capture

rent

inconvenience

breach

rub

seize

snaffle

hang-up

nobble

butt

smash

divest

dressing

ensnare

entanglement

entrap

eyehole

eyelet

fault

flourish

foul

glitch

hit

hole

🕳️

impede

impediment

impinge on

infringe

intercept

intricacy

kidnap

knock

matter

mesh

mistake

nab

nick

nub

obstructed

offend

opening

orifice

perforation

planter

ploy

pop

projection

puncture

puzzle

quandary

ram

🐏

renege on

rip up

rive

rock

🪨

run into

ruse

sanding

sausage

scabrousness

scrape

severity

shatter

shelf

shine

shock

⚡

shoot

shrub

slot

snap up

snare

snarl

snatch

squiggle

stave

strip

tailless

take hold of

tangle

tear down

total

track down

trammel

transgress

trap

🪤

trick

truncate

truncated

violate

wash out

wrap

become entangled

fallen tree

renegue on

snatch up

stave in

tree stump

thumbhole

crack

stump of a branch

swoop up

snaggle-tooth

hidden rock

drowned reef

sunken reef

peeling-off

aperture

dead standing tree

arduousness

bag

bar

barrier

break

break up

bump

bust

bust up

carp

cavity

challenge

chipping

collar

collide

complexity

complicacy

conundrum

cup

difficulties

disadvantage

disinvest

dismantle

distress

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈsnæɡ/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from inglese medio: *snagge

Cognate with norse antico: snag-hyrndr

Cognate with norvegese: snag

Cognate with islandese: snagi

Cognate with olandese: snoek

In summary

From earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”) (compare Old Norse snag-hyrndr (“snag-horned, having jagged corners”)), perhaps ultimately from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *snakk-, *snēgg, variations of *snakaną (“to crawl, creep, wind about”).
Compare Norwegian snag, snage (“protrusion; projecting point”), Icelandic snagi (“peg”). Also see Dutch snoek (“pike”).