snaffle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A broad-mouthed, loose-ringed bit (metal in a horse's mouth). It brings pressure to bear on the tongue and the corners of the mouth, and is often used as a training bit.

   ““I shall have to take the mare to-morrow,” said the Tertium Quid, “and she will stand nothing heavier than a snaffle.””

2. isim Decorative wear that looks like a snaffle.

   “Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.[…]A silver snaffle on a heavy leather watch guard which connected the pockets of his corduroy waistcoat, together with a huge gold stirrup in his Ascot tie, sufficiently proclaimed his tastes.”

3. fiil To put a snaffle on, or control with a snaffle.
4. fiil To quell or suppress.

   “Julian Joolby, when will you learn to snaffle your violent emotion?”

5. fiil To clutch by the bridle.
6. fiil To grab or seize; to snap up.

   ““That was my inspiration back in 2005,” he says, snaffling his third roll.”

7. fiil To purloin, or obtain by devious means.

   “[…] the Master at Arms, the senior member of the lower deck and chief policeman, was found to be drunk; he must have snaffled some of the crew's rum ration always kept closely guarded in a special locker […]”

8. fiil To talk foolishly.

   “In Norfolk, "jaffle" is used in the sense of idle discourse, of an indecent or malicious character; and a prating busybody is said to be "always a snaffling and jafflin about what don't concern him."”