different between snirt vs snit

English

Etymology 1

Verb

snirt (third-person singular simple present snirts, present participle snirting, simple past and past participle snirted)

1. (Scotland) To give a suppressed laugh or sharp intake of breath.
   • 1833, Anonymous, writing in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, page 575, "Willie and Pate" :

     "He grins, and snirts, and thraws ye ken — / I maist could die, wi' laughin."

   • 1837, James Hogg, "Katie Cheyne" in Tales and Sketches, page 172:

     "But ye see there was a great deal of blushing and snirting, and bits of made coughs, as if to keep down a thorough guffau."

   • 1871, William Black, A daughter of Heth: A novel, page 160:

     The Whaup grew very red in the face, and 'snirted' with laughter."

Noun

snirt (plural snirts)

1. (Scotland) A suppressed laugh; a sharp intake of breath.

See also

• snirtle

Etymology 2

Blend of snow +? dirt

Noun

snirt (uncountable)

1. (Canada, US) Snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed.
   • 1975, United States House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture and Related Agencies, Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1976, page 175 [1]:

     We then have what we call 'snirt' storms.

   • 1985, United States House Committee on Agriculture, General Farm Bill of 1985: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, page 924 [2]:

     Snirt or a mixture of snow and dirt is the term popularly applied to the windrows of dirt along the roads during a Minnesota winter.

   • 1997, William S. Burroughs, Last Words, Grove Press, page 73, ?ISBN:

     'Snirt' is a thing of the spring.

   • 2004, Dean Norman, Studio Cards: Funny Greeting Cards and People Who Created Them, Trafford Publishing, ?ISBN, page 131:

     […] it wasn't a hard winter. Only a couple of blizzards and snirt and snuss storms.

Derived terms

• snirty

Anagrams

• NRTIs

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