snick

There's blamed liars round here snick'rin' in their whiskers, and sayin' that you've backed me down.

Now look at the latest returns on the career of my old grammar school chum, Snick Butters.

Why, he would make two of Snick, this Hermy would, and he has a pair of shoulders like a truck horse.

One straight insertion, one snick of a tendon, and it was all over without a stain upon the white towel which lay beneath.

Then the eldest brother cut off the head; snick-snack, and carried it to the chief.