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snift

出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/08/01 23:43 UTC 版)

名詞

snift (countable and uncountable, plural snifts)

1. (UK dialectal, Lancashire, obsolete) A moment; a while.
   • a. 1890, Edwin Waugh, Dinner Time:
     An' if thou'll make a shift effort
     To tak thi time a bit, owd lass,
     Thou's have him in a snift!
   • 1982, Brian Hollingworth, Songs of the People: Lancashire Dialect Poetry, page 71:
     An ' if thou'll make a shift To tak thi time a bit, owd lass, Thou's have him in a snift!”
2. (UK dialectal, uncountable) A light dusting, as of snow.
   • 1746, Samuel Bamford, Tim Bobbin's Tummus, page 15:
     Good Lorjus, Meary ! theawrt so hasty; so I clum th' steeigh in o snift, shoavt th' awts eawt, an smackt me riddle oth' hoyle.
   • 1914, “Progress in the Mvement to Promote the Brick Industry”, in The Clay-worker, volume 61, page 652:
     He frowned, and sent snifts of snow and symptoms of rain that dampened the ardor of the golf contingent and made things murky and dreary outside.
   • 2012, Henry Gould, Lanthanum, page 22:
     Mingled labdanum w'fine snift of myrrh, to enhaunt her nautical J-chamois

語源 2

Imitative. Compare 中期英語 snifteren (“to sniffle”).

動詞

snift (third-person singular simple present snifts, present participle snifting, simple past and past participle snifted)

1. (now dialectal) To sniff; to snort or snuff.
   • 1792, Frances Burney, Journals and Letters, Penguin, published 2001, page 349:
     [S]he, also, entered, and coming pretty close to my Father, snifted at her Flowers with a sort of extatic eagerness, and then let them fall.
2. To snivel.
3. To cause a snift; to release pressure and vapor, such as from a steam engine or bottling equipment.

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