snudge

verb

1. (also, intransitive, obsolete, transitive)To save in a miserly manner; to hoard.

   “Ill huſbandry trudgeth with vnthrifts about, / good huſbandry ſnudgeth for feare of a dout.”

   “Manger ſon avoine en ſon ſac. To ſnudge it; or churliſhly to eat all his meat all alone; (from Moyles [mules], vvho haue bags of prouender hung ſo cloſe to their noſes, that none but themſelues can come at it.)”

2. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete)Also followed by along: to walk with one's head down; to walk with a stoop.

   “[T]o Snudge along, to go like an old Snudge, or like one vvhoſe Head is full of buſineſs, […]”

3. (dialectal, intransitive, obsolete)To lie quiet and snug; to nestle, to snuggle.

   “to snudge over a fire”

   “Novv he vvill fight it out, and to the vvarres; / Novv eat his bread in peace, / And ſnudge in quiet: novv he ſcorns increaſe; / Novv all day ſpares.”

noun

1. (intransitive, obsolete)A greedy, stingy person; a miser.

   “And thus your huſbandrye me thincke, is more like the life of a couetous ſnudge that ofte very euill preues, then the labour of a good huſbãde [husbande] that knoweth well what he doth.”

   “Hiſtories are no ſnudges in matters of note: […]”

   “Iſſue therefore forth amongſt good fellovvs, that vvill ſooner fight for thee, then thoſe ſnudges & miſerable cormorants that novv feede vpon thee.”

2. (intransitive, obsolete)A dishonest and sneaky person.

   “And in that ſlepe (me thought) I heard the tunes / Of ſullen paſſions apt for Funerals, / And ſaw my Fathers liueleſſe body borne / By Satyres: O I feare that deitie / Hath ſtolne him hence, that Snudge his deſtinie.”

   “[…] I 'll lay Five Pounds to a Hazelnut, the foul Thief has the very Looks of Gripe-me-now. […] [T]hou 'rt the right; for if we but examin that treacherous Review's ill-favour'd Phiz, we find that the filthy Snudge is yet more mischievous and ignorant than these ignorant Wretches here; […]”