noun
Meaning 1
A snipe.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete
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Standard Lemma guide
snite
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verb
Meaning 2
to blow (one's nose)
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland, obsolete, transitive
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verb
Meaning 3
to snuff (a candle)
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Usage: Scotland, obsolete, transitive
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History
Etymology
From Middle English snyte, from Old English snite.
From Middle English snyten, from Old English snȳtan (“to clear or blow the nose”), from Proto-Germanic *snūtijaną (“to blow the nose”). 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.