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Snagged

Jamal.sh

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Persian
Hello everybody.
I'm reading "Heartless Hunter" by Kristen Ciccarell.

Harrow’s mouth snagged in a crooked smile, as if this delighted her. “Sounds like a girl after my own heart."

What does"snagged in a crooked smile," mean? Does it mean closed in a crooked smile?
Thanks so much 🙏
I take it to mean that it looked as if something had caught/snagged on his lip and pulled his mouth into the semblance of a smile.
If something gets snagged, that usually means it’s caught on something and so can’t move until it’s freed. Your quote is presumably a figurative use of that verb. You haven’t explained who Harrow is or what’s going on, but it probably means that he(?) smiled a crooked/lop-sided smile as if one side of his mouth had caught on something. This is not a standard expression.
I think that the author may have the odd idea that since a snaggle-toothed grin has crooked teeth in it that there's a verb "snagged" that has this meaning of "crooked". 👁 Confused :confused:
The author seems to be fond of using idiosyncratic/cryptic expressions, as can be seen by some of Jamal’s other posts about this book.
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