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Snit vs Snift - What's the difference?

snit | snift |

As nouns the difference between snit and snift

is that snit is while snift is (uk|dialect) a moment.

As a verb snift is

to snort.

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

    Anagrams

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    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)