英语词汇snitch的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	snitch
词源	snitch. Snitch for an informer is not an Americanism from early days in the West, as some people believe. The term goes back at least to 18th-century England and is recorded in Fran- cis Grose’s Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue (1785). Originally snitch was a synonym for a nose. Since nose came to mean an informer in early English slang, so did snitch.
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