OED Word o' the day...

Aug. 12th, 2007 06:23 am
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sniggle... probably nothing like wot you're thinking.

• verb [no obj.] fish for eels by pushing a baited hook into holes in which they are hiding.
— origin mid 17th cent.: frequentative, based on earlier snig ‘small eel’, of unknown origin.
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