Definitions
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- noun (Mining) A short candle end used for igniting a fuse.
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- noun mining A short
candle end used forigniting afuse .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When the candle-snoff kindled some chaff from his grain
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The maid was a poor windling thing, and, though a playward piece o 'flesh when he married her, 'a socked and sighed, and went out like a snoff!
Two on a Tower Thomas Hardy 1884
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She was such a limber maid that 'a could stand no hardship, even when I knowed her, and 'a went like a candle-snoff, so 'tis said.
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"What's a haf-breded nappiddy head negrozid comanists snoff of a beach?"
unknown title 2009
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Den I pik up da tortle dat I savd frum da rode an I luk at him an zay, “Harild, wtf, why der no intarweb?” an’ Harild juz snoff like tortlz do an say “i wunt anoder bloobary.”
I’S WAITIN FOR ESTER BUNNAY!!1! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2007
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The maid was a poor windling thing, and, though a playward piece o’ flesh when he married her, ‘a socked and sighed, and went out like a snoff!
Two on a Tower 2006
reesetee commented on the word snoff
A short candle end used for igniting a fuse.
July 20, 2007