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snuffish

adj

Etymology

From snuff + -ish.

  1. derived from snuffen — “to snuff, sniff, snuffle”
  2. suffixed as snuffish — “snuff + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of snuff

    Resembling or characteristic of snuff; snuffy.

    • He had just given Rabbi Piltz his monthly check-up, and the snuffish odor of the old man lingered in the examining room.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for snuffish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA