snit
IPA: snˈɪt
noun
- (informal) A temper; a lack of patience; a bad mood.
- A U.S. unit of volume for liquor equal to 2 jiggers, 3 U.S. fluid ounces, or 88.7 milliliters.
- (US, dialect) A beer chaser commonly served in three-ounce servings in highball or juice glasses with a Bloody Mary cocktail in the upper midwest states of United States including Minnesota, North Dakota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, and Illinois.
- (especially dialectal, e.g. West Virginia, Lunenburg, chiefly in the plural) A slice of dried fruit.
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Examples of "snit" in Sentences
- Let's not get into a snit over this.
- I think someone's having a snit fit.
- You are an arrogant little snit.......
- Don't get in a snit if a picture you put got removed.
- I don't think this transitory snit belongs inWikipedia either.
- It's running away in a snit that causes concern, not vacations.
- Right now I am confining his little snit to a handful of pages.
- Endoscopy flew into a 'snit' at having been exposed to such a word.
- Snit is an object oriented extension to the Tcl programming language.
- This seems to me to be a quibble on top of a niggle working up to being snit.
- Despite the "snit" he was in, Don was writing plenty — new stories as well as Snow White.
- This has gotten them in quite a "snit" because they think anything against Obama is racist - but I just don't care.
- Candlesticks and snuffers were found in every house; the latter were called by various names, the word snit or snite being the most curious.
- Not surprisingly, the right-wing blogosphere had a field day mocking Frank for his "snit" while it was hard to find any commentary about the biased behavior of the CNBC crew.
- What apparently has Walmart executives 'panties in a snit is the belief that if Obama becomes president it's more likely that its employees will unionize, which is something the notoriously stingy employer fears.