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▪ I. snift, n. techn. [f. snift v.; cf. dial. snift a scent, whiff, etc.] (See quot. and snifting vbl. n.)1890 Times 7 Aug. 10/2 The whole of the ‘snift’ (which is the waste in bottling aerated waters) is saved by this machine.▪ II. snift, v. Now chiefly dial. (snɪft) [Imitative: cf. snifter v., and...
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snifty
▪ I. † ˈsnifty, n. Sc. Obs.—1 [f. snift v. Cf. sniff n. 4.] An insignificant person.1660 Baillie Lett. (1842) III. 412 To..be accounted poor feckless snifties, who has no witt nor action to end what he has so magnificentlie begun.▪ II. snifty, a. U.S. slang. (ˈsnɪftɪ) [f. snift v.] 1. Having a pleas...
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snifting
▪ I. ˈsnifting, vbl. n. [f. snift v.] a. The action of sniffing; also attrib. b. (See quot. 1890 and snift n.)c 1430 Freemasonry (Halliw. 1840) 36 From spyttynge and snyftynge kepe the also. 1755 Johnson, Snuff,..resentment expressed by snifting. 1849 Craig s.v. Snift, The snifting noise made by the...
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Benson E. Hill
a review of snuff, snuff-boxes, snuff-shops, snuff-takers, and snuff-papers ; with the moral and physical effects of snuff (1840) as Pollexenes Digit Snift
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cluff
cluff, n. north. dial. [perh. from claw v., with echoic modification, representing the ‘buffing’ sound; but cf. L. colaphus in same sense.] A blow with the palm of the hand (esp. on the ear or cheek). Hence cluff v., to strike with the palm of the hand, to cuff.1804 R. Anderson Cumbrld. Ballads 104 ...
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snifter
▪ I. snifter, n. Chiefly Sc. and north. dial. (ˈsnɪftə(r)) [f. the vb. Various other dial. senses are recorded in the Eng. Dial. Dict. and Jamieson's Sc. Dict.] 1. A strong or rough breeze or wind.1789 [see sniffler 1]. 1866– in northern dial. glossaries. 1886 B. Harte Snowbound 121 This is no blizz...
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sniff
▪ I. sniff, n. (snɪf) [f. the vb.] The phrase in a sniff ‘in a moment’ occurs slightly earlier in dial.: see the Eng. Dial. Dict. 1. a. An act of sniffing; a single inhalation through the nose in order to smell something, usually accompanied by a characteristic short snuffling sound; the sound made ...
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