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▪ I. † snit1 Obs.—1
In 5 snytte.
[Related to snite v.]
The glowing part of the wick of a candle when blown out.
c1420Chron. Vilod. 1277 Þis mayde..blewe ouȝt þe leyȝt anone sodanly—Bot þe weke hulte stylle þe snytte.
▪ II. snit2 slang (orig. and chiefly U.S.).
[Of uncertain origin (see quot. 19392).]
A state of agitation; a fit of rage or bad temper; a tantrum, sulk. Freq. in phr. in a snit.
1939C. Boothe Kiss Boys Good-bye ii. i. 105 ‘I declare, Mrs. Rand, I cried myself into a snit.’ ‘A snit?’ ‘I do deplore it, but when I'm in a snit I'm prone to bull the object of my wrath plumb in the tummy.’ 1939Sat. Rev. Lit. 23 Dec. 12/1 The membership could hardly be said to be in a snit,..as nobody in Georgia seems ever to have heard of either the word or the state of being until Miss Clare Boothe isolated and defined it. 1962J. Potts Evil Wish x. 136 If you hadn't been in such a snit when I came upstairs I'd have told you so. 1971Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 21 Jan. 4a/3 If New York solves its problems through gambling, every state in the union is going to follow suit except Nevada, which will probably secede from the nation in a snit. 1975J. Goulet Oh's Profit xxxvii. 208 The President of the United States had bawled him out and left Cambridge College in a fierce snit. 1980N.Y. Times 8 Jan. D 16, I was recently..put in charge of six other copywriters, two of them men. The men are in a quiet snit. |