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Quotation dates: 1864
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¶UPSNEER, v. To sniff up, inhale through the nostrils. Cf. Sneer, v., 1.Fif. 1864 W. D. Latto T. Bodkin ix.:
The simultaneous up-sneerin' o' snuff through some fifty or saxty nasal orifices.
