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noun
- Snow that is dirty, often seen by the side of roads and parking lots that have been plowed.
- 1975, United States House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture and Related Agencies, Agriculture and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1976, page 175 http://books.google.com/books?id=3XdEgv7yf88C&q=snirt&dq=snirt&pgis=1:
- "We then have what we call 'snirt' storms."
- 1985, United States House Committee on Agriculture, General Farm Bill of 1985: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, page 924 http://books.google.com/books?id=0eEFAAAAIAAJ&dq=snirt+snow+dirt&q=snirt&pgis=1:
- "Snirt or a mixture of snow and dirt is the term popularly applied to the windrows of dirt along the roads during a Minnesota winter."
- 1997, William S. Burroughs, Last Words, Grove Press, page 73, ISBN 0802137784:
- "'Snirt' is a thing of the spring."
- 2004, Dean Norman, Studio Cards: Funny Greeting Cards and People Who Created Them, Trafford Publishing, ISBN 1412017009, page 131:
- "... it wasn't a hard winter. Only a couple of blizzards and snirt and snuss storms."
verb
- (Scottish) A suppressed laugh; a sharp intake of breath.
- 1833, Anonymous, writing in The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, page 575, "Willie and Pate" :
- "He grins, and snirts, and thraws ye ken -- / I maist could die, wi' laughin."
- 1837, James Hogg, "Katie Cheyne" in Tales and Sketches, page 172:
- "But ye see there was a great deal of blushing and snirting, and bits of made coughs, as if to keep down a thorough guffau."
- 1871, William Black, A daughter of Heth: A novel, page 160:
- The Whaup grew very red in the face, and 'snirted' with laughter."
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