Dictionary Entry
snuff
snuff is a 5-letter English word with 16 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 16 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.
- 2transitive verb
To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.
- 3intransitive verb
To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.
- 4intransitive verb
To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.
- 5intransitive verb
To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses.
- 6intransitive verb
To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
- 7noun
The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
- 8noun
Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.
- 9noun
Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose.
- 10noun
sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
Synonyms
- 11noun
finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
- 12noun
a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
- 13noun
the charred portion of a candlewick
- 14verb
inhale audibly through the nose
"snuff coke"
- 15verb
sniff or smell inquiringly
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- 16adjective
snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown
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