snuff¹ /snuf/

1. To draw in air violently and noisily through the nose
2. To sniff
3. To smell at anything doubtfully
4. To take snuff

1. To draw into the nose
2. To smell, to examine, suspect, or detect by smelling

1. A powdered preparation of tobacco or other substance for inhaling through the nose
2. A pinch of snuff or act of snuffing
3. A sniff
4. Resentment, huff

snuffˈer noun

snuffˈiness noun

snuffˈing noun and adjective

snuffˈy adjective

1. Like, smelling of, soiled with or showing traces of, snuff
2. Touchy, huffy

snuffˈbox noun

A small lidded (usu metal) box for snuff

snuffbox bean noun

The cacoon

snuffˈ-colour or snuffˈ-brown noun

A yellowish or greyish brown, slightly paler than bistre

snuffˈ-coloured adjective

snuffˈ-dipper noun

snuffˈ-dipping noun

1. Orig in the USA, the practice of rubbing the teeth and gums with a wet stick dipped in snuff
2. Now, the practice of sucking a pinch or sachet of snuff held between the gum and the inside of the cheek

snuff mill noun

1. A factory or a hand-mill for grinding tobacco into snuff
2. A snuff-mull

snuffˈ-mull noun a snuffbox (see mill¹).

snuffˈ-paper noun (Walter Scott; contemptuous)

Banknotes

snuff spoon noun

A spoon for taking snuff from a snuffbox

snuffˈ-taker noun

snuffˈ-taking noun

take it in snuff (Shakespeare)

To take offence, be angered by

up to snuff

1. Alert, knowing, not likely to be taken in or imposed upon
2. Up to scratch, in good order
3. Of a high or suitable standard

snuff² /snuf/

1. The sooty burnt part of a wick
2. A worthless or offensive residue
3. A heeltap

1. To put out as with snuffers (with out; also figurative)
2. To remove the snuff from
3. To make brighter

snuffˈer noun

1. (in later use snuffers, or pair of snuffers) an instrument like a pair of scissors for removing snuffs from the wicks of candles or oil-lamps
2. An instrument with a cap-shaped part for extinguishing candles
3. An attendant, esp in a theatre, who snuffed candles

snuffˈ-dish noun

A dish or tray for candle snuffs

snuff film, snuff movie or snuff video noun

An illegal, usu pornographic, film or video recording depicting scenes of violence and torture climaxing in the actual killing of an unsuspecting member of the cast

snuff it (slang)

To die

snuff out (slang)

To kill or be killed

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