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Snirt vs Snift - What's the difference?

snirt | snift |

As verbs the difference between snirt and snift

is that snirt is (scotland) a suppressed laugh; a sharp intake of breath while snift is to snort.

As nouns the difference between snirt and snift

is that snirt is (us) snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed while snift is (uk|dialect) a moment.

snirt

English

Etymology 1

Verb

(en verb)
  • (Scotland) A suppressed laugh; a sharp intake of breath.
  • * 1833 , Anonymous, writing in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal , page 575, "Willie and Pate" :
    • "He grins, and snirts, and thraws ye ken -- / I maist could die, wi' laughin."
  • * 1837 , James Hogg, "Katie Cheyne" in Tales and Sketches , page 172:
    • "But ye see there was a great deal of blushing and snirting, and bits of made coughs, as if to keep down a thorough guffau."
  • * 1871 , William Black, A daughter of Heth: A novel , page 160:
    • The Whaup grew very red in the face, and 'snirted' with laughter."
    See also: snirtle

    Etymology 2

    Noun

    (-)
  • (US) Snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed.
  • * 1975 , United States House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture and Related Agencies, Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1976 , page 175 [http://books.google.com/books?id=3XdEgv7yf88C&q=snirt&dq=snirt&pgis=1]:
    • "We then have what we call 'snirt' storms."
  • * 1985 , United States House Committee on Agriculture, General Farm Bill of 1985: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture , page 924 [http://books.google.com/books?id=0eEFAAAAIAAJ&dq=snirt+snow+dirt&q=snirt&pgis=1]:
    • "Snirt or a mixture of snow and dirt is the term popularly applied to the windrows of dirt along the roads during a Minnesota winter."
  • * 1997 , William S. Burroughs, Last Words , Grove Press, page 73, ISBN 0802137784:
    • "'Snirt' is a thing of the spring."
  • * 2004 , Dean Norman, Studio Cards: Funny Greeting Cards and People Who Created Them , Trafford Publishing, ISBN 1412017009, page 131:
    • "... it wasn't a hard winter. Only a couple of blizzards and snirt and snuss storms."

    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)