Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sniff; snuff; sniffle; snivel.
- To pass the breath through the nose in a petulant manner.
- To snuff, as a candle.
- noun Slight snow or sleet.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Prov. Eng. A moment.
- noun Prov. Eng. Slight snow; sleet.
- intransitive verb obsolete To snort.
- intransitive verb To sniff; to snuff; to smell.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun UK, dialect A
moment . - noun UK, dialect, uncountable Slight
snow ;sleet .
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Examples
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I would sooner snift thy farthing candle than sustain that nasal cadence ever more. '
Camilla 2008
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He shall neither strike, or pinch, or tickle — or bite, or cut his nails, or hawk, or spit, or snift, or drum with his feet or fingers in company; — nor (according to Erasmus) shall he speak to any one in making water, — nor shall he point to carrion or excrement. —
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He shall neither strike, or pinch, or tickle — or bite, or cut his nails, or hawk, or spit, or snift, or drum with his feet or fingers in company; — nor (according to Erasmus) shall he speak to any one in making water, — nor shall he point to carrion or excrement. —
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Deed an 'I wasn't goin' t 'let yo' hab so much as a snift at it,
The Diamond Cross Mystery Being a Somewhat Different Detective Story Chester K. Steele
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I mean to say, when they snift they snift, and when they snuffle they -- as it were -- snuffle.
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Jest then I heerd a snift, like the coughin 'o' a glandered hoss; an 'turnin' suddintly round, I spied the biggest bar it hed ever been my luck to set eyes on.
The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire Mayne Reid 1850
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I would sooner snift thy farthing candle than sustain that nasal cadence ever more. '
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So then you look'd scornful, and snift at the Dean,
The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 Jonathan Swift 1706
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KB… him snift da klaw-furni an’ den went strayt foar da kowch.
Oh, dis looks ni— - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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It appeareth to me that even to praise one's self, although it be shameful, is less shameful than to throw a burning coal into the incense-box that another doth hold to waft before us, and then to snift and simper over it, with maidenly, wishful coyness, as if forsooth one had no hand in setting it asmoke. "
Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk Walter Savage Landor 1819
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