different between snib vs snie

English

Etymology

Origin uncertain.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /sn?b/

Noun

snib (plural snibs)

1. (Scotland, Australia) A latch or fastening for a door, window etc.
   • 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin 2009, p. 99:

     He did not like me coming in except if I was going to bed. I heard him saying to my maw about a snib for the door.

2. (obsolete) A reprimand; a snub.
   • 1601, John Marston, What You Will

     ill - strain'd snibs

Verb

snib (third-person singular simple present snibs, present participle snibbing, simple past and past participle snibbed)

1. (Scotland, Australia) To latch (a door, window etc.).
   • 1890, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of the Four, VI:

     ‘Window is snibbed on the inner side. Frame-work is solid. No hinges at the side. Let us open it.’

Anagrams

• ISBN, NiSb, bins, nibs

English

Verb

snie (third-person singular simple present snies, present participle snying, simple past and past participle snied)

1. Obsolete spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested). [17th century]

Anagrams

• EINs, NIEs, Nies, SINE, sein, sien, sine

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian sn?, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *snóyg??os

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sni??/

Noun

snie c (no plural)

1. snow

Further reading

• “snie (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011