Snip"pet (?), n. A small part or piece.
To be cut into snippets and shreds.
F. Harrison.
Snip"pet*y (?), a. Ridiculously small; petty. "Snippety facts." London
Spectator.
Snip"-snap` (?), n. [Reduplication of snap.] A tart dialogue with quick
replies. [R.] Pope.
Snip"-snap`, a. Quick; short; sharp; smart. Shak.
Snip"y (snp"), a. Like a snipe.
Snite (snt), n. A snipe. [Obs. or Scot.] Carew.
Snite, v. t. [Icel. snfa. See Snout.] To blow, as the nose; to snuff,
as a candle. [Obs. or Scot.]
{ Snithe (?), Snith"y (?) }, a. [AS. snðan to cut. See Snathe.] Sharp;
piercing; cutting; -- applied to the wind. [Prov. Eng.]
Sniv"el (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sniveled (?) or Snivelled; p. pr. &
vb. n. Sniveling or Snivelling.] [OE. snivelen, snevelen, snuvelen,
freg. of sneven. See Sniff, and cf. Snuffle.] 1. To run at the nose; to
make a snuffling noise.
2. To cry or whine with snuffling, as children; to cry weakly or
whiningly.
Put stop to thy sniveling ditty.
Sir W. Scott.
Sniv"el, n. [AS. snofel. Cf. Snivel, v. i.] Mucus from the nose; snot.
Sniv"el*er (?), n. [Written also sniveller.] One who snivels, esp. one
who snivels habitually.
Sniv"el*y (?), a. Running at the nose; sniveling pitiful; whining.
Snob (?), n. [Icel. snpr a dolt, impostor, charlatan. Cf. Snub.] 1. A
vulgar person who affects to be better, richer, or more fashionable,
than he really is; a vulgar upstart; one who apes his superiors.
Thackeray.
Essentially vulgar, a snob. -- a gilded snob, but none the less a
snob.
R. G. White.