My great grandfather apparently once complained about a hotel room because it was "snide with ants".
Although "snide" is commonly used to mean "mocking" or "malicious", in the Staffordshire dialect it means "overrun" or "full of".
The common meaning derives from the Middle English word "snithen" ("to cut") but whether the Staffordshire dialect meaning has the same source in not clear.
All of my great grandparents were born and lived in the Stoke on Trent area of Staffordshire. They spoke in a very distinctive dialect and often used words which I have never heard anywhere else. I thought it would be interesting to preserve these words and try to find out more about where they came from.
Sunday, 12 November 2017
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