snuff

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

tabacco da fiuto

raffreddore

🥶

tabacco

inspirazione

muco

mucosità

smoccolatura

sigarette

sigari

tabacco da fumo

tabacco da masticare

tabacco da presa

annusata

odorata

alito

snus

spegnere

sinonimi

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

Traduzioni

tabac à priser

Schnupftabak

priser

rapé

snuff

tabac

schnüffeln

rapè

schnupfen

snuif

schnuppern

👃

شمّ

Butzen

oler

👃

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/snʌf/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: -

Affine olandese: snuiven

Affine Middle Low German: snûve

Affine tedesco: Schnupfen

Affine olandese: snuffen

Affine tedesco: schnupf

Affine francese: schnouff

Ereditato da inglese medio: snoffe

Affine olandese medio: snuf

Affine olandese: sneuvelen

Ereditato da inglese 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”)).