Now dial. Also 9 sniccup. [Imitative: cf. LG. snik-up hiccup, Du. snik gasp, sob.] A sneeze, sneezing-fit.
1692. L’Estrange, Fables (1694), 397. If there had been but a Snick-up in the case, you’d have cry’d ‘The Lord bless ye Sir.’
1879. N. & Q., 5th Ser. XII. 45/2. The turkeys in his neighbourhood [Essex] were dying very much this season of the ‘snickups.’ By this he meant a kind of sneezing fit.
Snick-up v.: see SNICK v.1
