different between snig vs snit

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

Verb

snig (third-person singular simple present snigs, present participle snigging, simple past and past participle snigged)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, forestry) To drag a log along the ground by means of a chain fastened at one end.
2. (Britain, dialect) To sneak.
3. (Britain, dialect) To chop off; to cut.

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz or *snagilaz; related to snail.

Noun

snig (plural snigs)

1. (Britain, dialect) A small eel.

Anagrams

• IGNs, Ings, NGIs, Sing, Sing., gins, ings, nigs, sign, sing, sing.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?n??i??/

Verb

·snig

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of snigid

Mutation

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• (Ekavian): sn?g
• (Ijekavian): snij?g

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *sn?g?, from Proto-Indo-European *snóyg??os.

Noun

snig m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) snow
   • 1536, Petar Zorani?, Planine:

     Kako sun?en plam

     snig tali ?as svak,

     a vitar bludan

     odgoni oblak,

     tako ljubezan

     tali moj žitak.

   • 1622, Ivan Gunduli?, Suze sina razmetnoga:

     Kami u cvije?u, cvit na snigu,

     Snig na suncu, sunce u no?i.

   • 1759, Antun Kanižli?, Sveta Rožalija:

     Ter po strmu brigu i kamenju idem,

     po trnju, po snigu, po jamah k njoj pridem.

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