? Obs. Also snoutch. [Of obscure origin.] trans. To snub; to treat scornfully. Also absol.
1761. Mrs. F. Sheridan, S. Biddulph (1796), III. 156. I am glad of it, said he (very quick); I’ll be here to snoutch them. Dear Sir, said I,… you cannot conceive how humbled they are.
1809. Ann. Reg., 40. They may pun and epigrammatise, they may sneer, or they may snoutch.
1819. New Whig Guide, 131. Then at last they might discover ’Tis not well to snouch me so.
