snite
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of snite
First recorded before 1150; Middle English sniten, Old English snyten; akin to Old High German snūzen, Old Norse snȳta “to blow the nose”; perhaps akin to snot ( def. ), snout ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Candlesticks and snuffers were found in every house; the latter were called by various names, the word snit or snite being the most curious.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle
O. N. ȳ regularly > ī, written i, y: lythe, tyne, sit, skyrin, snite.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
It is from the old English snyten, to blow, and was originally a verb—to snite the candle, or put it out.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Alice Morse Earle
The old masculine i-stems which could not have umlaut in the plural accordingly came to be inflected entirely like the old masculine a-stems, as schrit, step, snit, cut, biȥ, bite, pl. schrite, snite, biȥȥe.
From A Middle High German Primer Third Edition by Joseph Wright
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