Snifter vs Sifter - What's the difference?
snifter | sifter |
A small alcoholic drink.
* 1917 , , The Oakdale Affair , ch. 1:
A pear-shaped glass for drinking brandy or other alcoholic beverages.
* 2003 Jan. 20, "
A tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.
(rare) One who sifts.
Any lamellirostral bird, as a duck or goose, so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamellae of the beak.
As nouns the difference between snifter and sifter
is that snifter is a small alcoholic drink while sifter is a tool for sifting, especially one for powdered cooking ingredients.snifter
English
Noun
(en noun)- "I guess you're a regular all right. Here, have a snifter ?" and he pulled a flask from his side pocket, holding it toward The Oskaloosa Kid.
Getting Saucy," Time :
- [H]e springs to another wooden vat and turns a valve, filling a snifter with a warm amber liquid. . . . Bang holds the liquid up to the light, swirls it around, takes a sniff of the pungent bouquet, puts the glass to his lips—and gives a satisfied smile.
Synonyms
* dram, nip, slug, totsifter
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was employed as a sifter .