snod up
C1 informal separable transitive
In simple words
To make something tidy and neat (used in old-fashioned or regional dialect).
Literal meaning: 'Snod' in Scots means neat or smooth; 'up' intensifies the completion — to make fully neat.
Meanings
1 C1 informal
(Scottish/northern English dialect) To tidy something up, make it neat and presentable.
"She snodded up the parlour before the visitors arrived."
Grammar: separable
Usage notes
Highly dialectal; primarily Scottish English and northern England dialects. Extremely rare in modern usage. 'Snod' means neat or trim in Scots. ESL learners are very unlikely to encounter this outside of historical or dialect literature.
Commonly used with
room appearance hair clothes
Forms
Base
snod up
I/you/we/they
3rd person
snods up
he/she/it
Past simple
snoded up
yesterday
Past participle
snoded up
have + pp
-ing form
snoding up
continuous
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