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snuff-and-butters

snuff-and-butters is the plural of snuff-and-butter.

Meaning of snuff-and-butter

Noun

snuff-and-butter (plural snuff-and-butters)

  1. (dated, derogatory, ethnic, slur) An individual of mixed racial heritage.
    • Your sweetheart fell in love with you in the Port of London, and presently afterwards with another pretty woman in the Port of Calcutta, which is generally the way with poor Tom Bowling. She was a snuff-and-butter, because at Calcutta they are as plenty as blackberries; and when young...1883, Sir Walter Besant, “The Captains' Room etc.”, in The Message of the Mute, chapter 1, page 18

Questions about snuff-and-butters

What is snuff-and-butters the plural of?
Snuff-and-butters is the plural of snuff-and-butter.

Words near snuff-and-butters in the dictionary

  1. snuff movies
  2. snuff out
  3. snuff video
  4. snuff videos
  5. snuff-and-butter
  6. snuff-and-butters
  7. snuff-box
  8. snuff-boxes
  9. snuff-dish
  10. snuff-dishes
  11. snuff-horn

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