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Sneaksby

Sneaksby \Sneaks"by\, n. A paltry fellow; a sneak. [Obs.] ``Such a bashful sneaksby.''
--Barrow.

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sneaksby

n. (context obsolete English) A paltry fellow; a sneak.

Usage examples of "sneaksby".

I hear Buttsy coming on the sneaksby up the stairs, I can see I am taking all the worst of it because I am now wheezing like a busted valve and you can hear me a block away except when I hold my breath, which is very difficult indeed, considering the way I am already greatly tuckered out.

She amused herself by compiling a list of epithets to which Johann might justifiably lay claim: sneaksby, basket-scrambler, hedge-bird.