snifter

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Etymology

From snift and sniff +‎ -er.

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Noun

snifter (plural snifters)

  1. A small pear-shaped glass used for aromatic liquors such as bourbon and brandy.
    • 2003 January 20, “Getting Saucy”, in Time:
      [H]e springs to another wooden vat and turns a valve, filling a snifter with a warm amber liquid. [] Bang holds the liquid up to the light, swirls it around, takes a sniff of the pungent bouquet, puts the glass to his lips—and gives a satisfied smile.
  2. Synonym of nip, a small amount of alcohol, (particularly) equivalent to what a snifter might hold.
    • 1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter 1, in The Oakdale Affair:
      "I guess you're a regular all right. Here, have a snifter?" and he pulled a flask from his side pocket, holding it toward The Oskaloosa Kid.
  3. (chiefly in the plural, with definite article) Synonym of sniffles, various minor ailments involving a runny nose.
    • 1844, Henry Stephens, The Book of the Farm, volume 2, page 260:
      The only disease I can remember to have seen in winter is what is vulgarly called the snifters, that is, a discharge of matter from the nose, which causes a noise in the nose like stifled breathing.
  4. (US) A severe storm.
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Verb

snifter (third-person singular simple present snifters, present participle sniftering, simple past and past participle sniftered)

  1. To sniff.