Snift vs Skift – What’s the difference?

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Snift vs Skift - What's the difference?
As nouns the difference between snift and skift is that snift is (uk|dialect) a moment while skift is a light dusting of snow.

As a verb snift is to snort.

snift

English

Etymology 1

Noun

  • (UK, dialect) A moment.
    • (Halliwell)
  • (UK, dialect, uncountable) Slight snow; sleet.
    • (Halliwell)

    Etymology 2

    From sniff.

    Verb

    (en verb )

  • To snort.
  • * Johnson
    • resentment expressed by snifting
  • To sniff; to snuff; to smell.
  • * Landor
    • It now appears that they were still snifting and hankering after their old quarters.

    (Webster 1913 )

    skift

    English

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • A light dusting of snow.
  • * 2010 , Mark Parman, A Grouse Hunter’s Almanac: The Other Kind of Hunting (page 84)
    • A skift of snow had fallen overnight on the ski trails, and Paul had yet to groom them and erase the tracks in the new snow.

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