Sc. and north. dial. Also 8– Sc. snule, snuil, 9 north. snuol. [Of obscure origin.] A tame, abject or mean-spirited person.
1718. Ramsay, Christ’s Kirk Gr., III. xvi. Ye silly snool, Wae worth ye’r drunken saul.
1791. J. Learmont, Poems, 4. [They] lead ye on, like arrant snools, ’Lang error’s road.
1815. G. Beattie, John o’ Arnha’ (1826), 13. Your snools in love, and cowards in war, Frae maiden grace are banish’d far.
1822. Carlyle, Early Lett., II. 51. You or any one of us will never be a snool; we have not the blood of snools in our bodies.
1882. Jas. Walker, Jaunt to Auld Reekie, 87. Crouching snools are kin to gangrel bodies.
