different between snite vs spite

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

snite (plural snites)

1. (obsolete or Scotland) A snipe.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English sniten, from Old English sn?tan (“to clear or blow the nose”), from Proto-Germanic *sn?tijan? (“to blow the nose”). Cognate with Old Norse snýta (“to blow the nose”), whence Danish snyde and Swedish snyta sig, and with German sich schneuzen. Related to snout and snot.

Alternative forms

• snet

Verb

snite (third-person singular simple present snites, present participle sniting, simple past and past participle snited)

1. (obsolete or Scotland, transitive) to blow (one's nose)
2. (obsolete or Scotland, transitive) to snuff (a candle)

References

• Thomson, J. - Etymons of English words - pg. 199

References

• snite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Stein, Tiens, inset, neist, nites, senti, set in, sient, stein, tines, tsine

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??n???t??]

Verb

snite

1. past participle of snigh (“pour (down), flow, course; filter through, percolate; glide, crawl”)

Mutation

Further reading

• "snite" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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Etymology

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Verb

snite

1. to appear or show oneself

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Alternative forms

• spight (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: sp?t, IPA^(key): /spa?t/
• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From a shortening of Middle English despit, from Old French despit (whence despite), from Latin d?spectum (“looking down on”), from Latin d?spici? (“to look down, despise”). Compare also Dutch spijt.

Noun

spite (usually uncountable, plural spites)

1. Ill will or hatred toward another, accompanied with the desire to irritate, annoy, or thwart; a want to disturb or put out another; mild malice

   Synonyms: grudge, rancor.

   He was so filled with spite for his ex-wife, he could not hold down a job.

   They did it just for spite.

   • 2014, Emivita, By Any Means Necessary: My Personal Struggles with Good and Evil

     sex with older men was a way to both internalize my spite towards my mother and to find security in a father figure I lacked with my own father.

   • Out of spite, the human beings pretended not to believe that it was Snowball who had destroyed the windmill: they said that it had fallen down because the walls were too thin.

2. (obsolete) Vexation; chagrin; mortification.

Translations

Verb

spite (third-person singular simple present spites, present participle spiting, simple past and past participle spited)

1. (transitive) To treat maliciously; to try to injure or thwart.

   She soon married again, to spite her ex-husband.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To be angry at; to hate.

   • The Danes, then […] pagans, principally spited places of religion.

3. (transitive) To fill with spite; to offend; to vex.

Related terms

• spiteful
• in spite of
• despite

Translations

See also

• malignant
• malicious

Etymology 2

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Preposition

spite

1. Notwithstanding; despite.

Anagrams

• IP set, piets, piste, septi-, stipe

Esperanto

Etymology

From English spite.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?spi.te/

Adverb

spite

1. in spite of
2. defiantly

Usage notes

Often used with the accusative or with the preposition al.

Derived terms

• spit
• spiti

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?i.t?/

Adjective

spite

1. inflection of spity:
   1. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative singular
   2. nonvirile nominative/accusative/vocative plural