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Snifter vs Shifter - What's the difference?

snifter | shifter |

As nouns the difference between snifter and shifter

is that snifter is a small alcoholic drink while shifter is one who, or that which, shifts or changes.

snifter

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small alcoholic drink.
  • * 1917 , , The Oakdale Affair , ch. 1:
    • "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.
  • A pear-shaped glass for drinking brandy or other alcoholic beverages.
  • * 2003 Jan. 20, " 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, tot

    shifter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
  • (dated) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
    • 'Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. — Milton.
  • (nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
  • (engineering) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
  • (engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
  • (cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
  • A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
    • (Webster 1913) English agent nouns