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Snig vs Snit - What's the difference?

snig | snit |

As nouns the difference between snig and snit

is that snig is a small eel while snit is a temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood.

As a verb snig

is to drag a log along the ground by means of a chain fastened at one end.

snig

English

Verb

  • (Australia, New Zealand, forestry) To drag a log along the ground by means of a chain fastened at one end.
  • (UK, dialect) To sneak.
  • To chop off; to cut.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK, dialect) A small eel.
    • (Webster 1913)

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    snit

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood.
    • He's in a snit because he got passed over for promotion.
  • A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters.
  • (US, dialect) A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois.
    • The bartender served us each a snit with our Bloody Marys this morning.

    See also

    * snitty * snit fit

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