snuff
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch snuffen (“to snuff, sniff, snuffle”).
Related to Dutch snuiven (“to sniff”), Middle Low German snûve (“pose, head-cold”), German Schnupfen (“head-cold”). The noun is probably from Dutch snuf (“snuff”), an abbreviation of snuftabak, snuiftabak (“snuff”). Related to sniff (compare Dutch snuffen (“snuff”), German schnupf (“snuff”), French schnouff (“junk”)).
Inflected forms:
form: snuffs
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snuffs
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snuffing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snuffed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snuffed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: The native of some South American tribes use this drug as an aphrodisiac in the form of a snuff called cohoba.
gloss: Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Dry snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist snuffs, as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.
[…] most of the women dipped snuff and of course had a spit-cup in the house.
gloss: A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Snot, mucus.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: Smell, scent, odour.
pos: noun
tags: countable
obsolete
uncountable
gloss: To inhale through the nose.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite.
Earl Walter winds his bugle horn; / To horſe, to horſe, halloo, halloo! / His fiery courſer ſnuffs the morn, / And thronging ſerfs their Lord purſue.
Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground.
gloss: To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: January 29, 1625, Joseph Hall, Public thanksgiving for the wonderful mitigation of the late morality
Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff?
gloss: To drug (a person) with a mixture of snuff and beer.
pos: verb
tags: Ireland
UK
obsolete
slang
transitive
Derived words: besnuff
creamy snuff
fairy snuff
huff-snuff
snuff-and-butter
snuff bottle
snuffbox
snuff-box
snuff box
snuff box sea bean
snuff-horn
snuffish
snuff-mull
snuff video
snuffy
up to snuff
snuff film
snuff movie
snuff out
snuffingly
snuffle
unsnuffed
Translations:
lang: Afar
word: siinó
lang: Arabic
word: نَشُوق
roman: našūq
lang: Armenian
word: քթախոտ
roman: kʻtʻaxot
lang: Azerbaijani
word: burunotu
lang: Bulgarian
word: енфие
roman: enfie
lang: Catalan
word: rapè
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 鼻煙 /鼻烟
roman: bíyān
lang: Dutch
word: snuif
lang: Dutch
word: snuiftabak
lang: Finnish
word: nuuska
lang: French
word: tabac à priser
lang: French
word: snuff
lang: Georgian
word: ბურნუთი
roman: burnuti
lang: German
word: Schnupftabak
lang: Hungarian
word: burnót
lang: Hungarian
word: tubák
lang: Italian
word: tabacco da fiuto
lang: Japanese
word: かぎタバコ
roman: kagi-tabako
lang: Japanese
word: スナッフ
roman: sunaffu
lang: Japanese
word: 嗅ぎタバコ
roman: kagitabako
lang: Macedonian
word: бурмут
roman: burmut
lang: Navajo
word: nátʼoh yildeełí nííʼiiʼnił
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: snus
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: snus
lang: Polish
word: tabaka
lang: Portuguese
word: rapé
lang: Quechua
word: sinq'ay
lang: Russian
word: ню́хательный таба́к
roman: njúxatelʹnyj tabák
lang: Russian
word: снафф
roman: snaff
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: snaoisean
lang: Spanish
word: rapé
lang: Swedish
word: snus
lang: Telugu
word: ముక్కుపొడి
roman: mukkupoḍi
lang: Thai
word: ยานัตถุ์
roman: yaa-nát
lang: Turkish
word: burun otu
lang: Turkish
word: enfiye
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: بورون اوتی
roman: burun otu
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: انفیه
roman: enfiye
lang: Ukrainian
word: таба́ка
roman: tabáka
lang: Ukrainian
word: поню́шка
roman: ponjúška