snitch
意味
- …を失敬する,こそどろする
- (…の)告げ口をする,密告する《+on+名》
- こそどろ,かっぱらい;告げ口する人
例文
You don't do a useful snitch of work.
君は役に立つ仕事は何もしない。
Dammit, that pest Nagisa, she really went and snitched on me to the teachers.
くそー、渚のやつ、本当に先生にチクりやがった。
語源
英語の原文(Wiktionary)
Origin uncertain. Perhaps an alteration of Middle English snacche (“a trap, snare”), snacchen (“to seize (prey)”, whence modern English snatch). Compare also Middle English snik snak (“a sudden blow, snap”). Alternatively, perhaps from a dialectal variant of sneak, from Middle English sniken, from Old English snīcan (“to creep; crawl”). More at sneak, snatch.