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sneak thief en · NOUN

Etymology

From sneak + thief. Compare Danish snigtyv (literally “sneak thief”).

Meanings

  1. A thief who steals without being noticed and without using violence.
    • […] travelling gangs of Moorish artisans, heavy armed Templars on their way to the Sepulchre, wandering minstrels, sneakthieves, bawds, rowdy strings of knights and foot-soldiers setting out with wine-skins at their saddlebows to cross the passes towards the debatable lands of Extremadura, […] 1922, John Dos Passos, “Antonio Machado: Poet of Castile”, in Rosinante to the Road Again, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC:

Forms

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sneak thieves Number=Plur lexicographic

Translations (2)

da snigtyv (sneak thief) · de Gelegenheitsdieb (sneak thief)