Word of the Week (from Merriam-Webster)

snickersnee \SNIK-er-snee\ noun: a large knife

Example sentence:
"The Lord High Executioner in The Mikado is someone who couldn't bring himself to execute a fly with a newspaper let alone a fellow human being with a razor-sharp snickersnee." (Canberra Times, November 30, 2003)

Did you know?
Back when pirates were swashbuckling around the seven seas, someone who got into "steake or snye" was engaging in cut-and-thrust sword and dagger fighting. "Steake or snye," which came from a Dutch term meaning "to thrust or cut," was eventually modified into "snick or snee," but the meaning of the phrase remained the same. By around 1775, the phrase had been compressed into the single word "snickersnee," which was used both as a verb for the act of such fighting and as a noun naming the knife used in such clashes.

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Okay, a few things immediately come to mind here.

1. Smee with his snickersnee would just be too funny to be omitted from Peter Pan.

2. Snicker (cut) and doodle (dawdling fool)--evolves into the first cookie I ever baked--? use of snickersee for cookie cutter? The cinnamon sprinkled on these cookies looks like freckles.

3. Snickersee is a dactyl, just like Pamela. Pterodactyl is not a dactyl, but a pair of trochees. I will pass this meter class yet.