snifter
IPA: snˈɪftɝ
noun
- A small alcoholic drink.
- A pear-shaped glass for drinking brandy or other alcoholic beverages.
- (US) A severe storm.
- (chiefly in the plural) A sniff or sniffle.
verb
- To sniff.
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Examples of "snifter" in Sentences
- His hand, still holding the brandy snifter, shakes.
- The picture of the snifter is really quite out of the way.
- Pour all ingredients directly into a snifter with ice cubes.
- This valve was caled a 'snifter' after the noise that it made.
- Pour cognac brandy snifter and place the lemon disk on top of the glass.
- Swaddle the brandy snifter in serviettes or a cloth to protect the hands.
- A snifter is a short-stemmed glass with a wide bottom that narrows slightly at the top.
- It conjures up other images we have of him as stout, natty, in tweed suit, cambric shirt and ankle boots, a human brandy snifter.
- I picked up the open bulb of glass that Margo had called a snifter and held it before me, watching the play of light in the red-brown fluid.
- An invoice in the file lists one bottle of Teacher's whisky, known to be her drink of choice; one bottle of gin, a "snifter" of which was favoured by her husband, Denis; and 200
- Before she was fairly clear of the harbour, though, there came a "snifter" from the hills that caught her unprepared, making her reel again, and giving us a desperate few minutes to scramble on board and hoist our boats up.
- And one of the great innovations of 2009 was to create a sequence of game dishes, so that the diner moved from a snifter filled with squab consommé to a rabbit loin with cocoa-dusted foie gras ravioli to rabbit brains in hare “juice.”
- You've brought out the truth about that lost coin collection; you've saved Hopewell Drugg from becoming a regular reprobate -- at least, so says his mother-in-law; you've converted Walky Dexter from his habit of taking a 'snifter' ---- "
- A translucent, chestnut-colored liquid is brought to the table in a snifter, where the server mists it with Armagnac—the diner thinks she is getting liqueur, but she is, in fact, drinking a perfectly clear squab consommé, redolent with the scent of the autumn hunt.