Snell, S, cold and cutting.
“There cam’ a wind oot o’ the north,
A sharp wind and a snell.”
Ballad—Young Tamlane.
Snirrup, or Snirp, C, to curl up the nose, etc.
“As seun as she fund I depended on labour,
She snirp’t up her nose an’ nae mair leuk’t at me.”
Anderson. The Lasses o’ Carel.
Snirt, or Snurl, C, the sound of imperfectly suppressed laughter.
“But seckan toke! nin could tell what aboot,