snite

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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English snyte, from Old English snite.

Noun

snite (plural snites)

  1. (obsolete or Scotland) A snipe.
    • 1630, Thomas Randolph, The Muse's Looking-Glass:
      Larks , thrushes , quails , woodcocks , snites , and pheasants,
      The best that can be got for love or money

Etymology 2

From Middle English snyten, from Old English snȳtan (“to clear or blow the nose”), from Proto-Germanic *snūtijaną (“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

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

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Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation

Verb

snite

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

Mutation

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
snite shnite
after an, tsnite 		not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English snyten, from Old English snȳtan, from Proto-West Germanic *snūtijaną.

Pronunciation

Verb

snite

  1. to clear one's nose
    • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 8, page 86:
      Hi kinket an keilt, ee vewe aam 'twode snite. Zim dellen harnothès w'aar nize ee reed cley;
      They kicked and rolled, the few that appeared. Some digging earth-nuts with their noses in red clay;

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68
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