snitch
Plural: snitches
Noun
- someone acting as an informer or decoy for the police
- A thief.
- An informer, one who betrays their group.
- A nose.
- A tiny morsel.
- A ball used in the sport of Quidditch: the Golden Snitch.
Verb
Verb Forms: snitched, snitching, snitches
- To inform on someone; to tell secrets or transgressions.
- take by theft
- "Someone snitched my wallet!"
- give away information about somebody
- To inform on, especially in betrayal of others.
- To contact or cooperate with the police for any reason.
- To steal, quickly and quietly.
Examples
- I wouldn’t SNITCH on my friend for using a word finder, but it’s tempting sometimes.
Origin / Etymology
Origin uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English snacche (“a trap, snare”), snacchen (“to seize (prey)”, whence modern English snatch). Compare also Middle English snik snak (“a sudden blow, snap”). Alternatively, perhaps from a dialectal variant of sneak, from Middle English sniken, from Old English snīcan (“to creep; crawl”). More at sneak.
Synonyms
betray, canary, cop, denounce, fink, give away, glom, grass, hook, knock off, rat, shit, shop, sneak, sneaker, snitcher, stag, stool pigeon, stoolie, stoolpigeon, tell on, thieve, bite, drop a dime, filch, filcher, grass up, mole, nick, pilfer, pincher, pocket, quisling, rat out, schnozz, snap, sneck, snippock
Scrabble Score: 11
snitch: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsnitch: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
snitch: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary