snag
A stump or base of a branch that has been lopped offA stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
» That's the snag.
Da liegt der Hase im Pfeffer. — Espi
Da liegt der Hase im Pfeffer! — PeterR
Трудный вопрос. — paul_lingvo
Это проблема. — paul_lingvo
CK · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
12 sensesA stump or base of a branch that has been lopped off; a short branch, or a sharp or rough branch.
Aststumpf, Aststummel
коря́гаkorjága
A dead tree that remains standing.
a dead tree that is still standing, usually in an undisturbed forest
A tree, or a branch of a tree, fixed in the bottom of a river or other navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.
Baumstumpf
топля́кtoplják, коря́гаkorjága
корчkorč
(broadly)Any sharp protuberant part of an object, which may catch, scratch, or tear other objects brought into contact with it.
A tooth projecting beyond the others; a broken or decayed tooth.
Zahnstumpf
(figuratively)A problem or difficulty with something.
we hit a snag
Haken, springender Punkt, Problem
препя́тствиеprepjátstvije, загво́здкаzagvózdka
A pulled thread or yarn, as in cloth; a tear.
Fadenzieher
One of the secondary branches of an antler.
(Australia, colloquial, informal)A sausage.
сосискаsosiska
(slang)A goal.
2003, Greg Baum, "Silver anniversary of a goal achieved", The Age "It just kept coming down and I just kept putting them through the middle," he said. "I got an opportunity, and I kicked a few snags."
A misnaged, an opponent to Chassidic Judaism (more likely modern, for cultural reasons).
(UK, dialectal, obsolete)A light meal.
Examples
14 sentencesThat's the snag.
ruТрудный вопрос. — paul_lingvo
deDa liegt der Hase im Pfeffer. — Espi
There's a snag.
deEs gibt einen Haken. — pne
Tom ran into a snag.
У Тома виникла проблема. — deniko · CC BY 2.0 FR
I'm afraid there's a little snag.
Wherein our story hits a snag.
Translations
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Origin
From earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, fromFrom earlier snag (“stump or branch of a tree”), from Middle English *snagge, *snage, from Old Norse snagi (“clothes peg”) (compare Old Norse snag-hyrndr (“snag-horned, having jagged corners”)), perhaps related to *sneganą, *snakaną (“to crawl, creep, wind about”) if the original meaning of the root *sneg- was more like “pointy object, stinging creature”. Note also *snakkōną (“to snap at, smack the lips; to blow”) (German schnacken (“to chat”)) and English sneck, snatch.
The Australian National Dictionary Centre suggests that snag as slang for "sausage" most likely derives from the earlier British slang for "light meal", although it makes no comment on how it came to be specifically applied to sausages.Meanings and origins of Australian words and idioms The word's use in football slang originates as a shortening of "sausage roll", rhyming slang for "goal", to sausage, and hence, by synonymy, snag.
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