Definitions for snuff

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Spelling: [snuhf]

IPA: /snʌf/

Snuff is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in snuff (ffnsu).

Definitions for snuff

noun

1. an act of snuffing; an inhalation through the nose; a sniff.
2. smell, scent, or odor.
3. a preparation of tobacco, either powdered and taken into the nostrils by inhalation or ground and placed between the cheek and gum.
4. a pinch of such tobacco.
5. the charred or partly consumed portion of a candlewick.
6. a thing of little or no value, especially if left over.

Idioms

1. up to snuff, Informal. British. not easily imposed upon; shrewd; sharp. up to a certain standard; satisfactory:

Verb phrases

1. snuff out, to extinguish: to suppress; crush: Informal. to kill or murder:

verb (used with object)

1. to draw in through the nose by inhaling.
2. to perceive by or as by smelling; sniff.
3. to examine by smelling, as an animal does.
4. to cut off or remove the snuff of (candles, tapers, etc.).

verb (used without object)

1. to draw air into the nostrils by inhaling, as to smell something; snuffle:
2. to draw powdered tobacco into the nostrils; take snuff.
3. Obsolete. to express disdain, contempt, displeasure, etc., by sniffing (often followed by at).

Origin of snuff

First recorded in 1520-30, snuff is from the Dutch word snuffen

Examples for snuff

Look in my face while I snuff the sidle of evening, Talk honestly, for no one else hears you, and I stay only a minute longer.

He could imagine himself an Islamist avenger like that masked monster in black who appears in the ISIS snuff videos.

Pelosi and Reid will work to snuff out any legislation that could force Obama to take unpopular stands.

When he had said it, he took a culminating pinch of snuff, and put his box in his pocket.

She has left off chewing and smoking, having found a refuge in snuff.

Against the regulations of the College, he used to bring in snuff to the other scholars.

He packed a large pinch of the snuff against his bottom gum.

The head of the animal was tossed; then it seemed to snuff the air, and it gave a shriek.

I must have a care I don't get some of that snuff out of his nose.

Even as Valle sat in court this week, the 364 various groups on DFN included one called Cannibalism, snuff with 835 members.