The judicious Snooker

National Magazine: devoted to Literature, Art and Religion. Abel Stevens, Editor. Volume VII. July to December, 1855. P. 140

Why the surname under consideration should be so much more plentiful than any other, is a grave question. The judicious Snooker, to whose learned work, De Patronymico, the reader may refer at his leisure, gives, perhaps, the best solution of the question. We are free to confess, however, that for ourselves we are not satisfied with it. The cause, we opine, lies deeper; and we are half inclined to adopt the theory of Fugleman, as modified by the acute Toady.