23 June 2018

snifter

[snif-ter]

noun

1. Also called inhaler. a pear-shaped glass, narrowing at the top to intensify the aroma of brandy, liqueur, etc.
2. Informal. a very small drink of liquor.

Origin of snifter

Middle English

1840-1850; derivative of snifter to sniff, snivel, Middle English snyfter; imitative

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Historical Examples

For the love of goodness, Fritz, give me a snifter of tanglefoot!
Frank Merriwell’s Backers
Burt L. Standish

But he was just a snifter short on that potent and undisciplined drink.
Where the Pavement Ends
John Russell

He turned, snifter in hand, and it was easy to see that his privations had tried him sorely.
Right Ho, Jeeves
P. G. Wodehouse

But picking up the sail in other blows and picking it up in a Cape Horn snifter is a horse of another color.
The Viking Blood
Frederick William Wallace

At sunset he quit, easy winner, and went without taking so much as a ” snifter.”
Tonio, Son of the Sierras
Charles King

Today’s quote

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

– Euripides

On this day

23 June – International Widows’ Day – a UN ratified day to address the ‘poverty and injustice faced by millions of widows and their dependents in many countries’.

23 June 1912 – birth of Alan Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist. Turing is considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence. He invented the ‘Turing machine’ which formulated the computer algorithm. It’s the forerunner for the modern computer. During World War 2, Turing was instrumental in cracking German messages encrypted by the Enigma machine. Sadly, Turing’s achievements were overshadowed by him being charged with gross indecency after admitting to being in a homosexual relationship. On 31 March 1952, following his guilty plea, he was chemically castrated. Two years later, on 7 June 1954,Turing took his own life with cyanide. On 10 September 2009, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown publicly apologised on behalf of the British Government for the ‘appalling way he was treated’. On 23 December 2013, Queen Elizabeth II issued a posthumous royal pardon, clearing Turing of the charge of gross indecency.

23 June 2000 – 15 backpackers perish in a fire at the Palace Backpackers Hostel, in Childers, Queensland, Australia.

23 June 2011 – death of Peter Falk, U.S. actor (Colombo) … ‘therrre ya go‘… (born 16 September 1927).