Also snook. [Of obscure origin.] A derisive gesture, = SIGHT sb.1 7 c.
1879. A. J. C. Hare, Story Life (1900), V. 218. If I put my hands so … (cutting a snooks), they might reproach me very much indeed.
1904. Times, 24 Sept., 8/3. The young monkey puts his tongue in his cheek and cocks a snook at you.
1906. Drury, Men at Arms, 36. Her Majesty’s ship … cocked her jibboom snooks-fashion at her late enemy the sea.
