A sneck is a kind of latch. A listener in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, says his British relatives sometimes use the term snecklifter to mean “a gift that will get you in the door at a dinner party.” This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “Sneck”
I’m reading about snakes.
Snakes.
Snakes.
Snakes.
No.
Are they small?
Why did it have to be snakes?
No, it’s sneck.
It’s S-N-E-C-K.
Do you know what a snake is?
It’s a latch.
It’s a dialect word from Scotland.
And so a sneck draw is a latch lifter.
That is a sly, crafty person.
Or a snack lifter can be a burglar.
It can be a ghost.
But we heard from Bob Gorin in Philadelphia who said that he has a distant relative in northern England who uses the word snack lifter in a different way.
He says that in his family they use snack lifter to mean a bottle of wine or a box of chocolates that you bring to the dinner party for the host.
It gets you in the door.
A snack lifter.
Isn’t that cool?
The reason I said snake is that in the online communities where people share cute photos of animals, S-N-E-K is often the kind of cutesy way of talking about snakes.
Snack.
Yeah, there are a lot of those, right?
Yeah, yeah.
So snacks, my snack.
