adjective
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of, relating to, or resembling snuff
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covered with or smelling of snuff
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unpleasant; disagreeable
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Etymology
Origin of snuffy
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Born in 1885, in a grimy coal-mining village in Nottingham shire, Lawrence soon grew, as he himself said, into "a delicate pale brat with a snuffy nose" who "trotted after his mother like a shadow."
From Time Magazine Archive
Does Skinflint ever think his candle is snuffy or burns dimly?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 by Various
What quondam collector at Rome but must recollect that snuffy and gruffy old fellow, Ignazio Vesconali, who lives at the bottom of Scalirata, and has grown old with the Piazza itself!
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 369, July 1846 by Various
If they have put up long with the company of snuffy old men, they will know how to receive a man and a warrior;” and he stretched his limbs.
From The Golden Rock by Ernest Glanville
Oh, Page, you are so ridiculous to make up all of that about two snuffy old ladies.
From Tripping with the Tucker Twins by Nell Speed
“My sister-in-law’s guardian is an American artist with eccentric ideas about educating girls to see every phase of life,” said Judy in the stuffiest, snuffiest kind of voice.
From The Claw by Cynthia Stockley
As for the Boston people, they resembled our good townsmen of Tryon County somewhat, though their clothes were of a more elegant cut, and even the snuffiest of them wore lace and buckles.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
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