Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Informal A state of agitation or irritation.
Wiktionary
- n. A temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood.
- n. A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters.
- n. US, dialect A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Illinois.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a state of agitated irritation
Etymologies
- Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Candlesticks and snuffers were found in every house; the latter were called by various names, the word snit or snite being the most curious.”
“What apparently has Walmart executives 'panties in a snit is the belief that if Obama becomes president it's more likely that its employees will unionize, which is something the notoriously stingy employer fears.”
“Not surprisingly, the right-wing blogosphere had a field day mocking Frank for his "snit" while it was hard to find any commentary about the biased behavior of the CNBC crew.”
“Despite the "snit" he was in, Don was writing plenty — new stories as well as Snow White.”
The Wall Street Journal: Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
“This has gotten them in quite a "snit" because they think anything against Obama is racist - but I just don't care.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“Endoscopy flew into a 'snit' at having been exposed to such a word.”
“One thing for sure, Field and Stream has been taken out of my Business for the PC bull snit like Tom McIntyre and what they did to Sir Jim Zumbo.”
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
“Worked in job control and talk about breaking records in getting the F-15's and RF-4's to there forward locations scared the snit out of he Russians!”
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off
“Now, it must be admitted that many can get themselves into a snit when they discover that others have also sawed through the bars and run away across the fields.”
The Huffington Post: Glenn W. Smith: We're No Angels: Americans, Church Doctrine, and the Pill
“The proprietor of the on-line store responded in comments, and in the interests of fairness, as everyone had a chance to read my snit (granted, it is my journal, but still), I am pulling his comment out of the thread and putting it here in full, no changes, so that people who read my comment can also read his explanation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snit’.
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EN-HU - important words for a HU inte...
Words only (I left out the expressions) from Geza Kerenyi's EN-HU interpreters' dictionary. Most of them pose some difficulty when interpreted between HU and EN in either or both directions.
abalone, abrasive, abstractionist, abstruse, abysmal, academia, accessibility, accessible, acclimate, accolade, accompanist, achiever and 1469 more...
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Origin unknown
bamboozle, ballyhoo, banter, bludgeon, chad, cocktail, culvert, curmugeon, dildo, dude, dweeb, dyke and 51 more...
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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Life is just a four-letter word
Everyone's got their favorites. Here are some of mine.
snit, hobo, minx, kiln, loll, pelf, yegg, ugly, bumf, brio, biro, haha and 92 more...
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colleen's words ii
sibilant, sundry, spindle, distaff, device, mortar, pestle, scythe, flail, thresh, frown, elementary and 495 more...
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ifjuly's list
favorite words. some are made up injokes between me and my husband or family.
skein, zaftig, july, bed, orifice, aesthete, ink, parce-que, desormais, cake, pusillanimous, pulse and 531 more...
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miscellanea
antimacassar, snootful, sessile, glagolitic, marrowsky, farrago, keel, calumny, rheum, talisman, tally, awry and 508 more...
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Presidents At War
Words compiled while reading Presidents At War.
tumescent, dint, inexactitude, imprimatur, mikado, casus belli, aeolian, umbilicus, drumfire, suzerain, snit, palaver and 27 more...
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simple & useful5
rapt, hash house, harpies, freeborn, head shot, aerodrome, kibosh, boondocks, digress, gizmo, corkscrewing, combustibility and 44 more...
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scoutmd's Words
trousseau, retinue, cavil, beset, snit, forfend, nirvana, renascent, decamp, chocolate-box, flagrante delicto, philter and 24 more...
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Living Dead in Dallas, by Charlaine H...
New words I discovered while reading this book.
soused, mince, bourre, acumen, doffed, zydeco, untoward, ennui, petulant, bailiwick, porte cochere, snit and 28 more...
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Favourite words
smirk, fractious, misanthrope, apocalypse, disingenuous, tetchy, piffle, dither, mingy, sneaky, dope, quadruped and 45 more...
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MachinChouette's Words
coddle, scion, hansom, sputum, pince-nez, snit, lulu, hoodwink
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VictoriaPL's Words
misadventure, argyle, gargoyle, harlequin, paramour, vorpal, mercurial, carpathian, serpentine, pandemonium, catharsis, miasma and 46 more...
Tweets
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Noelle Knight In a real snit, I stomped into the bedroom to put on my bathrobe. -Charlaine Harris, Living Dead in Dallas Dec 10, 2010
sarra I think this one has burrowed its way into my consciousness without me being, well, conscious of it. I'm fairly certain I've used snitty once or twice. Feb 21, 2008