snite

American  

[snahyt] / snaɪt /

verb (used with object)

British

snited, sniting

1. to wipe mucus from (the nose), especially with the finger or thumb.

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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

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 Earle, Alice Morse

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 Earle, Alice Morse

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 Wright, Joseph

O. N. ȳ regularly > ī, written i, y: lythe, tyne, sit, skyrin, snite.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias