different between snit vs smit

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

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sm?t/

Etymology 1

Noun

smit

1. Alternative spelling of smitt

Etymology 2

See smittle.

Verb

smit (third-person singular simple present smits, present participle smitting, simple past and past participle smitted)

1. (transitive, Britain, obsolete, dialect) To infect.

Noun

smit (plural smits)

1. (Britain, obsolete, dialect) An infection.
2. (Britain, obsolete, dialect) A stain.

Related terms

• smittle

Etymology 3

Verb

smit

1. (obsolete, rare) simple past tense and past participle of smite
   • smit with the beauty of so fair a scene

Anagrams

• ISTM, ITSM, MIST, MiST, TIMS, TIMs, TMIs, Tims, mist, stim

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• smitt (Luserna)

Etymology

From Old High German smid, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz. Cognate with German Schmied, Dutch smid, English smith.

Noun

smit m

1. (Tredici Comuni, Sette Comuni) smith

References

• “smit” 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

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sm??t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Noun

smit n (genitive singular smits, no plural)

1. (pathology) infection

Declension

Related terms

• smita (“to infect”)

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *smith, from Proto-Germanic *smiþaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sm?t/

Noun

smit m (stem smed-)

1. smith

Inflection

Alternative forms

• smet

Descendants

• Dutch: smid
  • Afrikaans: smid
• Limburgish: smeid, smieëd

Further reading

• “smit”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “smit (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From Old Norse smíta, from Proto-Germanic *sm?tan?.

Verb

smit

1. To quickly or as by chance put or throw something in any place or into something.

   hä går h?rä hä will men jag smitä dit a jag

   Whichever way it goes I threw it there anyway.

Synonyms

• smisk

See also

• smong

Etymology 2

From Middle Low German smîte.

Noun

smit

1. The loop at the end of a net or a fishnet, by which one net is attached to the other when netting.
2. The very end of the net.

   stor fisskjen s?t yterst på smita

   The big fish sat at the end of the net