Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
Definition: Snifter |
SnifterNoun1. A globular glass with a small top; used for serving brandy. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snifter" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1876. (references) |
Synonyms: SnifterSynonyms: brandy glass (n), brandy snifter (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Tongue Twisters | Sinful Caesar sipped his snifter, seized his knees and sneezed. (references; author: unknown) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Consumer Goods | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Snifter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snifter" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 10 | 111,207 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "snifter": brandy snifter. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
brandy snifter | 17 |
snifter | 14 |
crystal brandy snifter | 2 |
snifter valve | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "snifter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | rrufë (catarrh, cold, flu, flue), goditje e fortë (oner, slog, slug, smacker, staggerer, stinger, swat, swinger, swipe, thump, wallop). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | чаша за коняк, глътка силно питие (snort, snorter). (various references) | |
Danish | snoefteventil (snifter valve), åndeventil (breather valve, snifter valve, snifting valve, vacuum relief valve), ånderør (breather, breather valve, snifter valve, snifting valve, vacuum relief valve, vent). (various references) | |
Dutch | borrel (dram, nip, peg, snorter), aperitief (dram, nip, peg, snorter). (various references) | |
Esperanto | aperitivo (dram, nip, peg, snorter). (various references) | |
Finnish | huohotinventtiili (breather valve, snifter valve, snifting valve, vacuum relief valve). (various references) | |
French | apéro (snorter), apéritif (snorter). (various references) | |
Frisian | foaritentsje (dram, nip, peg, snorter). (various references) | |
German | Aperitif (aperitif, appetizer, dram, nip, peg, snorter). (various references) | |
Greek | βαλβίδα αναρρόφησης αέρα (snifter valve), ανακουφιστική βαλβίδα (ball valve, bleeder, bleeder valve, breather valve, discharge valve, emergency valve, non-return valve, overflow valve, pass valve, pressure control valve, relief valve, safety valve, snifter valve, snifting valve, stop valve, vacuum relief valve, waste gate). (various references) | |
Hungarian | orkán (gale, high wind, hurricane, hurricane wind), szűkszájú ivópohár, pálinka (bingo, brandy, firewater, hard drink, hootch, schnapps, schnaps, strong water, water of life), kis pohár ital (tot), ital (beverage, booze, drink, jake, potation, potion, quencher, swill), heves szélroham. (various references) | |
Italian | cicchetto. (various references) | |
Norwegian | dram (dram, nip, peg, snorter). (various references) | |
Papiamen | aperitivo (dram, nip, peg, snorter). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iftersnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | aperitivo (aperitif, appetizer, appetizing, cocktail, dram, nip, peg, snorter, stomachic, whet). (various references) | |
Russian | бокал (goblet, stemware, tumbler, wineglass). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mala količina viskija (snort). (various references) | |
Spanish | aperitivo (aperitif, appetizer, dram, nip, peg, snorter). (various references) | |
Swedish | liten drink. (various references) | |
Thai | แก้วเหล้าบรั่น"ีปากแคบ, เหล้าจำนวนเล็กน้อย. (various references) | |
Turkish | kanyak kadehi, bir yudum (dash, sip, swig, tot), balon bardak (balloon glass). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hớp rượu (snort). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snifter": snifters. (additional references) | |
| |
"Snifter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sniffer, snifty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-f-i-n-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: estrin, feints, finest, inerts, infers, infest, insert, inters, niters, nitres, refits, resift, rifest, sifter, sinter, strife, triens, trines. | |
-2 letters: feint, feist, ferns, finer, fines, fires, firns, first, frets, fries, frise, frits, inert, infer, inset, inter, neifs, neist, nerts, niter, nites, nitre, refit, reifs, reins, rents, resin, rifts, rinse, risen, rites, senti, serif. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-f-i-n-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: fainters, ferniest, infester, snifters. | |
+2 letters: ferritins, festering, firestone, foresting, fostering, frenetics, frightens, fringiest, frontiers, infecters, infectors, infesters, inflaters, interfuse, introfies, nitrifies, notifiers, reinfects, resifting, stiffener, unfairest. | |
+3 letters: benefiters, confiteors, confitures, craftiness, defrosting, draftiness, fantasizer, ferretings, fingerpost, fingertips, firestones, firethorns, firmaments, flatliners, flustering, fornicates, fosterling, fromenties, frostiness, frothiness, fruitiness, frumenties, furmenties, furnitures, gentrifies, infantries, infighters, inflicters, infuriates, interfaces, interferes, interfiles, interfolds, interfused, interfuses, ironfisted, manifester, misfortune, nitrifiers, presifting, rainforest, refections, reflations, reinflates, renotifies, restaffing, restuffing, sanctifier, stiffeners, surfeiting, threadfins, transfixed, transfixes, uniformest. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Images: Slideshow 6. Usage Frequency 7. Expressions 8. Expressions: Internet | 9. Translations: Modern 10. Derivations 11. Anagrams 12. Bibliography |
Copyright © Philip M. Parker, INSEAD. Terms of Use.
