Snide vs Snite - What's the difference?
snide | snite |
Disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.
Tricky; deceptive; false; spurious; contemptible.
(obsolete, or, Scotland, transitive) To blow (one's nose).
(obsolete, or, Scotland, transitive) To snuff (a candle).
As nouns the difference between snide and snite
is that snide is an underhanded, tricky person given to sharp practise; a sharper; a beat while snite is a snipe.As an adjective snide
is disparaging or derisive in an insinuative way.As a verb snite is
to blow (one's nose).snide
English
Adjective
(er)- Don't make snide remarks to me.
- He was a snide lawyer.
- I received a shipment of snide goods.
References
Anagrams
* * *snite
English
(Webster 1913)Etymology 1
Etymology 2
From (etyl) snitan. Cognate with (etyl) . Related to snout and (snot).Verb
(snit)References
* Thomson, J. - Etymons of English words -pg. 199