different between snet vs snit

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sn?t/

Etymology 1

From Old English sn?tan, from Proto-Germanic *sn?tijan?. Compare snot.

Verb

snet (third-person singular simple present snets, present participle snetting, simple past and past participle snetted)

1. (obsolete) To clear of mucus; to blow (one's nose).

   • snetting his nose

Etymology 2

Compare German Schnitt (“that which is cut”), from schneiden (“to cut”). Compare English snath.

Noun

snet (uncountable)

1. (Britain, obsolete, dialect) The fat of a deer.

Anagrams

• ENTs, NEST, Sten, TENS, ents, nest, nets, sent, sent., tens

English

Etymology

Also perhaps from the German “schnitt” which is a portion of beer that is smaller than a glass.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sn?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

snit (plural snits)

1. A temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood.

   He's in a snit because he got passed over for promotion.

   • 2013, Florida Ann Town, On the Rim (page 84)

     She was confused. Now that he had worked himself into a snit he'd be angry if she unmade the bed and did what he wanted.

2. A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters.
3. (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, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois.

   The bartender served us each a snit with our Bloody Marys this morning.

See also

• snitty
• snit fit

Anagrams

• Inst., NIST, NTIS, TINs, Tsin, inst, inst., ints, isn't, nits, tins

Cimbrian

Etymology

From Old High German snita, from Proto-Germanic *snidaz (“cut, slice, piece”).

Noun

snit f

1. (Luserna) cut, slice, piece

References

• “snit” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien