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  • Alle i ring omkring deg vi står, og se, nå vil vi marsjere, bukke, nikke, neie, snu oss omkring, danse for deg med hopp og sprett og spring

    It’s a warm AND a source of noms. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010

  • The only catch being that the tricky blighters would have to be exorcised by snu snu.

    Exorcism ... by Snu Snu RICHARD 2006

  • Naturally the faux-medium snu snued her 51 times over a six month period, before her suspecting husband cottoned onto the fact that his wife was engaging in something more than your everyday Ouija board session ...

    Exorcism ... by Snu Snu RICHARD 2006

  • I'm not sure if the aliens are supposed to represent the Snu-snu, or whatever it is that Scientologists call them, but they are cool aliens.

    Archive 2005-11-01 RICHARD 2005

  • I'm not sure if the aliens are supposed to represent the Snu-snu, or whatever it is that Scientologists call them, but they are cool aliens.

    Cruise, Lauer, Aliens, Rant RICHARD 2005

  • So gjer Samviskan Slavar av oss alle, so bi dan fyrste, djerve, bjarte Viljen skjemd ut med blakke Strik av Ettertankjen og store Tiltak, som var Merg og Magt i, maa soleid snu seg um og strøyma ovugt og tapa Namn av Tiltak.

    An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway Martin Brown Ruud 1913

  • If Signer Ascoli blames me for deriving _Niobe_ with other names for snow from the root _snu_, instead of from the root _snigh_, this can only be due to an oversight.

    Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays 1861

  • Signor Ascoli has certainly shown with greater minuteness than his predecessors that not only Zend _snizh_ and Lithuanian _snêga-s_, but likewise Gothic _snaiv-s_, Greek νίφει, Latin nix, nĭv-is, and ninguis, may be derived from _snigh_; but if from _snigh_, a secondary development of the root _snu_, we can arrive at νίφ-α and at νίβα, the other steps that lead on to Niobe will remain just the same.

    Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays 1861

  • The real relation of _snu_ to _snigh_ had been explained as early as 1842 by

    Chips From A German Workshop, Vol. V. Miscellaneous Later Essays 1861

  • I believe that snow, which forms into balls in melting and coheres, was named _nix nivis_, from a root _snigh_ or _snu_, denoting everything which melted and yet stuck together or cohered.

    The Silesian Horseherd - Questions of the Hour 1861

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