snuff

Oznaczający (Angielski)

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.
3. A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
4. The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
5. Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
6. (obsolete) Snot, mucus.
7. (obsolete) 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. (obsolete,slang) To drug (a person) with a mixture of snuff and beer.

Verb

1. 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.

Synonimy

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

cigars

detect

die out

dip

erase

faint

ferret

food

🍽️

go out

huff

inhale

kill

🔪🩸👤

lochia

mucus

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/snʌf/

Etymologia (Angielski)

Dziedziczone z średnioangielski: -

Pokrewny z niderlandzki: snuiven

Pokrewny z Middle Low German: snûve

Pokrewny z niemiecki: Schnupfen

Pokrewny z niderlandzki: snuffen

Pokrewny z niemiecki: schnupf

Pokrewny z francuski: schnouff

Dziedziczone z średnioangielski: snoffe

Pokrewny z średniowieczny niderlandzki: snuf

Pokrewny z niderlandzki: sneuvelen

Dziedziczone z średnioangielski: 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”)).