snift

English

Etymology 1

Noun

snift (countable and uncountable, plural snifts)

  1. (Britain, dialectal) A moment.
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  2. (Britain, dialectal, uncountable) Slight snow; sleet.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 2

From sniff.

Verb

snift (third-person singular simple present snifts, present participle snifting, simple past and past participle snifted)

  1. To snort.
    • Johnson
      resentment expressed by snifting
  2. To sniff; to snuff; to smell.
    • Landor
      It now appears that they were still snifting and hankering after their old quarters.
  3. To snivel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for snift in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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