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Snift vs Smift - What's the difference?

snift | smift |

As nouns the difference between snift and smift

is that snift is a moment while smift is a slow match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.

As a verb snift

is to snort.

snift

English

Etymology 1

Noun

  • (UK, dialect) A moment.
    • (Halliwell)
  • (UK, dialect, uncountable) Slight snow; sleet.
    • (Halliwell)

    Etymology 2

    From sniff.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To snort.
  • * Johnson
    • resentment expressed by snifting
  • To sniff; to snuff; to smell.
  • * Landor
    • It now appears that they were still snifting and hankering after their old quarters.
    (Webster 1913)

    smift

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A slow match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse.
    • (Webster 1913)