Snift vs Sniffed - What's the difference?
snift | sniffed |
(UK, dialect) A moment.
(UK, dialect, uncountable) Slight snow; sleet.
To snort.
* Johnson
To sniff; to snuff; to smell.
* Landor
(sniff)
An instance of sniffing.
A quantity of something that is inhaled through the nose
A brief perception
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=November 3
, author=Chris Bevan
, title=Rubin Kazan 1 - 0 Tottenham
, work=BBC Sport
(ambitransitive) To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as if to smell something.
To say something while sniffing, for example in case of illness or unhappiness, or in contempt.
To perceive vaguely
To be dismissive or contemptuous of something.
(computing) To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network.
(slang, UK) To inhale drugs in powder form (usually cocaine) through the nose.
As verbs the difference between snift and sniffed
is that snift is to snort while sniffed is (sniff).As a noun snift
is (uk|dialect) a moment.snift
English
Etymology 1
Noun
- (Halliwell)
- (Halliwell)
Etymology 2
From sniff.Verb
(en verb)- resentment expressed by snifting
- It now appears that they were still snifting and hankering after their old quarters.
sniffed
English
Verb
(head)sniff
English
Noun
(en noun)- She gave the flowers a quick sniff to check they were real.
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Verb
(en verb)- The dog sniffed around the park, searching for a nice scent.
- I sniffed the meat to see if it hadn't gone off.
- "He's never coming back, is he?" she sniffed while looking at a picture of him.
- I can sniff trouble coming from the basement.