Now Lanc. dial. Also 6 snydge. [var. of SNUDGE sb.] A greedy or miserly person.
1548. Forrest, Pleas. Poesye, 97. For suche solayne snydges [do thou] caste reformation by forfeture too the poores sustentation.
1855. J. Davies, in Trans. Philol. Soc., 272. Snidge, a greedy, sordid person.