Snuff

Noun

 * 1) Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
 * 2) Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue; see also snus.
 * 3) * 1896, Universal Dictionary of the English Language:
 * Dry snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist snuffs, as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.
 * 1) A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
 * 2) The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
 * 3) Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
 * 4)  Snot, mucus.
 * 5)  Smell, scent, odour.

Derived terms

 * up to snuff

Verb

 * 1) To inhale through the nose.

Noun

 * 1) The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which has to be periodically removed).
 * 2) * 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.3.3:
 * his memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out [...].
 * 1)  Leavings in a glass after drinking; heel-taps.
 * 2)  Pertaining to a form of pornographic film which involves someone's actually being tortured or murdered.

Derived terms

 * snuff-dish
 * snuff film
 * snuff movie
 * snuffter

Verb

 * 1) To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
 * 2)  To kill a person; to snuff out.

Derived terms

 * snuffer
 * snuff it
 * snuff out

Thesaurus
Aqua-Lung, artificial respiration, aspirate, aspiration, assibilate, assibilation, asthmatic wheeze, blow, blow out, breath, breath of air, breathe, breathe hard, breathe in, breathe out, breathing, broken wind, buzz, choke, cough, damp, douse, draw in, dudgeon, effervesce, effervescence, effervescing, exhalation, exhale, exhaust, expel, expiration, expire, exsufflation, extinguish, fizz, fizzle, fizzling, frication, frictional rustling, gasp, gulp, hack, hiccup, hiss, hissing, huff, hush, hushing, inhalation, inhalator, inhale, inhalement, inspiration, inspire, insufflation, iron lung, lisp, miff, mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, nose, out, oxygen mask, oxygen tent, pant, pinch of snuff, pique, puff, put out, quench, rappee, resentment, respiration, respire, rhonchus, scent, scuba, shush, shushing, sibilance, sibilate, sibilation, siffle, sigh, sigmatism, siss, sissing, sizz, sizzle, sizzling, slack, slurp, smell, smell of, smother, sneeze, sneezing, sniff, sniffle, snoose, snore, snoring, snort, snuff bottle, snuff in, snuff mill, snuff out, snuffbox, snuffle, spit, splutter, sputter, squash, squelch, squish, stamp out, sternutation, stertor, stifle, suck, suck in, sucking, suckle, suction, suspiration, swish, umbrage, wheeze, whiff, whish, whistle, whistling, white noise, whiz, whoosh, wind, zip

Etymology 2
Origin uncertain.

Noun

 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: tabacco da fiuto


 * Macedonian: бурмут
 * Norwegian:
 * Swedish:
 * Telugu: ముక్కుపొడి

Verb

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