Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling snuff in color, smell, or other character.
- Soiled with snuff, or smelling of it.
- Offended; displeased.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Soiled with snuff.
- adjective Obs. or Scot. Sulky; angry; vexed.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Soiled withsnuff . - adjective obsolete, Scotland
Sulky ;angry ;vexed .
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Examples
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The old corral was repaired, new posts put in where needed, and the first thing in the morning a vicious old bull was herded in and tormented till he was "snuffy" and extremely dangerous.
Monarch, the Big Bear of Tallac Ernest Thompson Seton 1903
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"snuffy," owing to the predominance of the odor and its well-known use in the boxes of those who indulge in the titillating dust.
The Art of Perfumery And Methods of Obtaining the Odors of Plants George William Septimus Piesse 1851
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Yes | No | Report from snuffy wrote 37 weeks 2 days ago
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Yes | No | Report from snuffy wrote 37 weeks 2 days ago
Best Wishes, Tred 2009
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Yes | No | Report from snuffy wrote 37 weeks 2 days ago
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Yes | No | Report from snuffy wrote 37 weeks 3 days ago
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Yes | No | Report from snuffy wrote 37 weeks 6 days ago
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Yes | No | Report from snuffy wrote 37 weeks 2 days ago
Best Wishes, Tred 2009
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Yes | No | Report from snuffy wrote 37 weeks 6 days ago
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Yes | No | Report from snuffy wrote 37 weeks 3 days ago
Adalberto commented on the word snuffy
Ride left to right. Sing them snuffies. Dont pop no matches.
Cormac McCarthy - Cities of the Plain, 1998
May 11, 2015