Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to snaffle
Participle: snaffled
Gerund: snaffling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | snaffle |
| you | snaffle |
| he;she;it | snaffles |
| we | snaffle |
| you | snaffle |
| they | snaffle |
Perfect
| I | have snaffled |
| you | have snaffled |
| he;she;it | has snaffled |
| we | have snaffled |
| you | have snaffled |
| they | have snaffled |
Past
| I | snaffled |
| you | snaffled |
| he;she;it | snaffled |
| we | snaffled |
| you | snaffled |
| they | snaffled |
Pluperfect
| I | had snaffled |
| you | had snaffled |
| he;she;it | had snaffled |
| we | had snaffled |
| you | had snaffled |
| they | had snaffled |
Future
| I | will snaffle |
| you | will snaffle |
| he;she;it | will snaffle |
| we | will snaffle |
| you | will snaffle |
| they | will snaffle |
Future Perfect
| I | will have snaffled |
| you | will have snaffled |
| he;she;it | will have snaffled |
| we | will have snaffled |
| you | will have snaffled |
| they | will have snaffled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | snaffle |
| you | snaffle |
| he;she;it | snaffle |
| we | snaffle |
| you | snaffle |
| they | snaffle |
Perfect
| I | have snaffled |
| you | have snaffled |
| he;she;it | have snaffled |
| we | have snaffled |
| you | have snaffled |
| they | have snaffled |
Imperfect
| I | snaffled |
| you | snaffled |
| he;she;it | snaffled |
| we | snaffled |
| you | snaffled |
| they | snaffled |
Pluperfect
| I | had snaffled |
| you | had snaffled |
| he;she;it | had snaffled |
| we | had snaffled |
| you | had snaffled |
| they | had snaffled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would snaffle |
| you | would snaffle |
| he;she;it | would snaffle |
| we | would snaffle |
| you | would snaffle |
| they | would snaffle |
Perfect
| I | would have snaffled |
| you | would have snaffled |
| he;she;it | would have snaffled |
| we | would have snaffled |
| you | would have snaffled |
| they | would have snaffled |
Imperative
| you | snaffle |
| we | Let's snaffle |
| you | snaffle |
Verbs conjugated like 'snaffle'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'snaffle'
shaffle,
snarfle,
sniffle,
snuffle,
baffle,
faffle,
gaffle,
haffle,
maffle,
niffle,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
Apparently from Dutch snavel, from Middle Dutch snavel, snabel (“snout”), diminutive of Middle Dutch snabbe, snebbe (“bird's bill, neb”). Akin to Old Frisian snavel (“mouth”), Middle Low German snabbe (“neb, beak”), Old English nebb (“beak, bill, nose, face”). More at neb.
Sample Sentences
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Julian Joolby, when will you learn to snaffle your violent emotion? [1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London:]
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“That was my inspiration back in 2005,” he says, snaffling his third roll. [2026 April 18, John Thornhill, “Lunch with the FT: Dario Amodei”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3:]
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[…] the Master at Arms, the senior member of the lower deck and chief policeman, was found to be drunk; he must have snaffled some of the crew's rum ration always kept closely guarded in a special locker […] [2014, Geoffrey Bennett, The Battles of Coronel and the Falklands, 1914:]
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In Norfolk, "jaffle" is used in the sense of idle discourse, of an indecent or malicious character; and a prating busybody is said to be "always a snaffling and jafflin about what don't concern him." [1855, Notes and Queries, volume 11, page 391:]