snifter
English
Noun
snifter (plural snifters)
- A small alcoholic drink.
- 1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Oakdale Affair, ch. 1:
- "I guess you're a regular all right. Here, have a snifter?" and he pulled a flask from his side pocket, holding it toward The Oskaloosa Kid.
- 1917, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Oakdale Affair, ch. 1:
- A pear-shaped glass for drinking brandy or other alcoholic beverages.
- 2003 Jan. 20, "Getting Saucy," Time:
- [H]e springs to another wooden vat and turns a valve, filling a snifter with a warm amber liquid. […] Bang holds the liquid up to the light, swirls it around, takes a sniff of the pungent bouquet, puts the glass to his lips—and gives a satisfied smile.
- 2003 Jan. 20, "Getting Saucy," Time:
- (US) A severe storm.
- A sniff.
Synonyms
- (small alcoholic drink): dram, nip, slug, tot
Translations
small alcoholic drink
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pear-shaped glass
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Verb
snifter (third-person singular simple present snifters, present participle sniftering, simple past and past participle sniftered)
- To sniff.