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
Never mind what I said; it’s better than being a reader, and growing into a snuffy cantankerous old scarecrow like me.
From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville
Why, Grace, my boy, I’m an old snuffy bachelor because my opportunity never came, but if I could have married such a woman as that—Hah! some men are born to be fools!”
From The Story of Antony Grace by Fenn, George Manville
The grand seigneur, imbued with every instinct of luxury and refinement, became a snuffy old hermit, uncared for, not properly waited on, feeding badly, and living in one room.
From The Heart of a Woman by Orczy, Emmuska Orczy, Baroness
And it gave me a queer feeling, I can tell you, to think of Elsie—my Elsie—teaching alongside that snuffy old badger.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
“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 Stockley, Cynthia
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 Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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