SNEAK, verb intransitive [See Snake.] 1. To creep or steal away privately; to withdraw meanly, as a person afraid or ashamed to be seen; as, to sneak away from company; to sneak into a corner or behind a screen. You skulk'd behind the fence, and sneak'd away. 2. To speak roughly; to talk in rude murmuring terms. It is malicious and unmanly to snarly at the little lapses of a pen, from which Virgil himself stands not exempted. SNEAK, verb transitive To hide. [Not in use.] SNEAK, noun A mean fellow.
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