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. A regional name for a beer chaser commonly served in 3 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.
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.”
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