Tom poured Mary a snifter full of brandy.
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Snifter
//ˈsnɪftə//
Synonyms for "snifter" (41 found)
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29 translations across 15 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- ըմպանակ noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Bulgarian
2 entries- линийка noun (small amount of cocaine taken by inhaling through the nose)
- чаша за коняк noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Chuvash
1 entries- черкке noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Finnish
3 entries- annos noun (small amount of cocaine taken by inhaling through the nose)
- aromilasi noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
- honottaa verb (to speak (words) in a nasal, snuffling manner)
French
3 entries- ballon noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
- pipe à cognac noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
- verre à cognac noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
German
3 entries- Kognakglas noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
- Kognakschwenker noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
- Nosing-Glas noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Hebrew
1 entries- כוס ברנדי סניפטר noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Italian
2 entries- napoleone noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
- snifter noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Japanese
4 entries- スニフター noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
- スニフターグラス noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
- テイスティンググラス noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
- ブランデーグラス noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Russian
1 entries- рю́мка noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Spanish
4 entries- copa balón noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
- copa de brandy noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
- copa de coñac noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
- coñaquera noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Swedish
1 entries- konjakskupa noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Turkish
1 entries- brendi bardağı noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Ukrainian
1 entries- ча́рка noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Uzbek
1 entries- ryumka noun (small, wide, pear-shaped glass)
Sample sentences
8 total sentences available.
He set the two snifter glasses side by side and tilted the bottle.
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Brouffer. To ſnurt, or ſnifter vvith the noſe, like a horſe.
Source: wiktionary
Nifler. To ſnifter, or ſnuffe vp ſniuell; to dravv it vp by dravving in the vvind.
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