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Definition of Snifts
1. snift [v] - See also: snift
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snifts
| snifflingly snifflings sniffly sniffs sniffy snift snifted snifter sniftered snifters | sniftier sniftiest snifting snifting valve snifting valves snifts (current term) snifty snig snigg snigged | snigging sniggle |
Literary usage of Snifts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Physico-theology: Or, A Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God by William Derham (1720)
"... they can as minutely break their Food, as other Animals do with their Teeth.
(aa) Thus in Woodcocks, snifts, crc. who hunt for Worms in ..."
2. A Paladin of Philanthropy: And Other Papers by Austin Dobson (1899)
"... the author would answer that his book is not designed (in Landor's phrase) to
lie— ' With summer sweets, with albums gaily drest, Where poodle snifts at ..."
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