Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To blow or wipe (the nose); snuff (a candle); in falconry, to wipe (the beak) after feeding.
  • To blow or wipe the nose.
  • noun A snipe.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Obs. or Scot. A snipe.
  • transitive verb Obs. or Scot. To blow, as the nose; to snuff, as a candle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A snipe.
  • verb transitive To blow (one's nose).
  • verb transitive To snuff (a candle).

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Old English snitan. Cognate with Old Norse snýta (to blow the nose), whence Danish snyde and Swedish snyta sig, and with German sich schneuzen. Related to snout and snot.

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