snifter
Noun
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Noun
snifter (plural snifters)
- A small alcoholic drink.
- 1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Oakdale Affair, ch. 1:
- "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.
- 1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Oakdale Affair, ch. 1:
- A pear-shaped glass for drinking brandy or other alcoholic beverages.
- 2003 Jan. 20, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,409643,00.html Getting Saucy]," 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.
- 2003 Jan. 20, "[http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,409643,00.html Getting Saucy]," Time:
- (US) A severe storm.
- (mostly, in the plural) A sniff or sniffle.
- 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.
- 1844, Henry Stephens, The Book of the Farm (volume 2, page 260)
- French: verre à cognac, pipe à cognac
- German: Kognakglas, Kognakschwenker
- Italian: napoleone
snifter (snifters, present participle sniftering; past and past participle sniftered)
- To sniff.
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