[f. prec.]
1. trans. To keep in subjection; to snub.
17[?]. Ramsay, Address of Thanks, iv. Wks. 1877, I. 258. Our dotard dads, snool’d wi’ their wives.
a. 1796. Burns, ‘An’ O for ane-and-twenty, Tam!’ ii. They snool me sair, and haud me down.
1830. Galt, Lawrie T., IX. i. (1849), 406. The arrogance and high hand with which Mr. Bell was attempting to snool us all.
2. intr. To submit tamely; to cringe; to crawl meekly or humbly.
1786. Burns, Bard’s Epitaph, i. Owre blate to seek, owre proud to snool.
1810. Tannahill, Poems (1846), 141. Never snool beneath the frown Of any selfish roggie.
1833. Chalmers, in Hanna, Mem. (1851), III. 391. We had to snool back to London the way we came.
1895. ‘G. Setoun,’ Sunshine & Haar (1896), ix. 150. Sandy ‘snooled’ through life with bovine equanimity.
