All snipe synonyms
snipe
S s noun snipe
- curlew — A curlew is a large brown bird with long legs and a long curved beak. Curlews live near water and have a very distinctive cry.
- game bird — any bird hunted chiefly for sport, as a quail or pheasant, especially such a bird that is protected by game laws.
- woodcock — either of two plump, short-legged migratory game birds of variegated brown plumage, the Eurasian Scolopax rusticola and the smaller American Philohela minor.
- quail — a small, migratory, gallinaceous game bird, Coturnix coturnix, of the Old World.
- wildfowl — a game bird, especially a wild duck, goose, or swan.
verb snipe
- copping — the winding of yarn into a cap from a cone, bobbin, etc.
- filch — to steal (especially something of small value); pilfer: to filch ashtrays from fancy restaurants.
- fleer — to grin or laugh coarsely or mockingly.
- comeback — If someone such as an entertainer or sports personality makes a comeback, they return to their profession or sport after a period away.
- copped — to catch; nab.
- cop — A cop is a policeman or policewoman.
- jeer — to speak or shout derisively; scoff or gibe rudely: Don't jeer unless you can do better.
- cribbing — the action of one that cribs