Now Lanc. dial. Also 6 snydge. [var. of SNUDGE sb.] A greedy or miserly person.

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1548.  Forrest, Pleas. Poesye, 97. For suche solayne snydges [do thou] caste reformation by forfeture too the poores sustentation.

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1855.  J. Davies, in Trans. Philol. Soc., 272. Snidge, a greedy, sordid person.

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