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.
Definitions
- transitive verb. The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not.
- transitive verb. To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of.
- intransitive verb. To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.
- intransitive verb. To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.
- intransitive verb. To inhale air through the nose with violence or with noise, as do dogs and horses.
- intransitive verb. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
- noun. The act of snuffing; perception by snuffing; a sniff.
- noun. Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.
- noun. Resentment, displeasure, or contempt, expressed by a snuffing of the nose.
- noun. sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
- noun. finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
- noun. a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
- noun. the charred portion of a candlewick
- verb. inhale audibly through the nose
"snuff coke"
- verb. sniff or smell inquiringly
- adjective. snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown
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Common word forms
snuffs, snuffed, snuffer, snuffly, snuffing, snuffless
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