Definitions for snuffy

snuffy snuff·y

Spelling: [snuhf-ee]
IPA: /ˈsnʌf i/

Snuffy is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in snuffy (ffnsuy).

Definitions for snuffy

adjective

  1. resembling snuff.
  2. soiled with snuff.
  3. given to the use of snuff.
  4. having an unpleasant appearance.
  5. having hurt feelings.
  6. easily displeased.

Origin of snuffy

First recorded in 1780-90; snuff1 + -y1

Examples for snuffy

snuffy's as poor as Job's turkey; it was a windfall for him.

Does Skinflint ever think his candle is snuffy or burns dimly?

She is not pleasant-looking, to be sure; snuffy and disagreeable in her ways also.

One fat and snuffy priest had come chattering like a parrot.

If he didn't know much when he begun, he's ahead of snuffy now.

In Tristram Shandy we read of the marks of a snuffy finger and thumb.

I shall only find in him,' I thought, 'a "snuffy priest," and he in me only an Oxford cub.'

Does he think that I am a snuffy collector of stuffy curios?

snuffy Davie, a prince of book-hunters, 166—his capture of the Game of Chess, 222.

That snuffy black gown of hers went down in a reverence as he passed.

Word Value for snuffy
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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