(UK, dialect, obsolete, rare) intertwistings and entanglements of thread, string, etc.
(UK, dialect, obsolete, rare) intertwistings and entanglements of thread, string, etc. when carelessly handled.
Jordan sat tight against Mom's legs, the nightly position for her mandatory hundred strokes, because time, tide and snocksnarls wait for no man.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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British, Australian, and New Zealand slang for a traffic jam — a tangle of vehicles that has brought movement to a halt. By extension it can mean any kind of organizational or procedural mess that has caused everything to slow down or stop. The 'snarl' element evokes tangled threads or an animal baring its teeth — something knotted and stuck. Common in everyday spoken and written English in those regions.
(UK, Australian, NZ) A traffic jam.
(Yorkshire) knotted or entangled.
(UK, obsolete) A headband or snood.
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(UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To submit tamely to others.