snuff

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
2. (countable, uncountable) Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
3. (countable, uncountable) A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
4. (countable, uncountable) The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
5. (countable, uncountable) Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
6. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Snot, mucus.
7. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Smell, scent, odour.

Verb

1. To inhale through the nose.
2. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
3. (Ireland, UK, obsolete, slang, transitive) To drug (a person) with a mixture of snuff and beer.

Verb

1. (countable, informal, uncountable) To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
2. (obsolete) To trim the burnt part of a candle wick.
3. (slang) To snuff out; to extinguish; to put out; to kill.

Conceptos

aspiración

😴💭

oler

👃

cigarrillo

🚬

cigarro

husmear

inspiración

moco

olfatear

tabaco

constipad

despabilar

espabilar

esputo

flema

pábilo

rape

tabaco en polvo

tabaco de mascar

tabaco para inhalar

olisquear

respirar ruidosamente

aliento

snus

apagar

Sinónimos

tobacco

sniff

snort

sternutatory

snuffle

snuff-brown

put out

smell

👃

quench

snot

snuff out

nose

👃

take

cigarette

🚬

chewing tobacco

scent

chukker-brown

extinguish

mummy-brown

obliterate

pinch

pry

rappee

rub

rub out

slake

sleuth

snoop

switch off

thief

turn off

wipe out

get scent of

take snuff

wich

candle-end

mucosity

naccaboy

smoking tobacco

obstruction of the nose

stoppage in the nose

candle-snuff

snus

nasal snuff

delete

snoose

blow out

breathe in

burn out

cigarettes

Traducciones

tabac à priser

Schnupftabak

priser

rapé

tabacco da fiuto

snuff

tabac

schnüffeln

rapè

schnupfen

raffreddore

🥶

snuif

schnuppern

👃

شمّ

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/snʌf/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: -

Cognado con neerlandés: snuiven

Cognado con Middle Low German: snûve

Cognado con alemán: Schnupfen

Cognado con neerlandés: snuffen

Cognado con alemán: schnupf

Cognado con francés: schnouff

Heredado de inglés medio: snoffe

Cognado con neerlandés medio: snuf

Cognado con neerlandés: sneuvelen

Heredado de inglés medio: snuffen

In summary

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”)).