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snuffers

snuffers is the plural of snuffer.

Meaning of snuffer

Noun

snuffer (plural snuffers)

  1. A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.
    • If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.1731 (date written; published 1745), [Jonathan] Swift, Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […], →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    candle snuffer
  2. A person who uses snuff (the tobacco product).
  3. The common porpoise.
  4. The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).

See all 5 meanings of snuffer

Noun

snuffers (plural snuffers)

  1. Synonym of snuffer (“device to extinguish candles”).
    • This typical example of a snuffers works like a pair of scissors; the blades are used to cut the wick.1982, Jonathan L. Fairbanks, Robert Trent, New England Begins: Mentality and environment, page 254
    Synonyms:
    snuffer

Proper noun capitalized: Snuffers

Snuffers

  1. (plural) plural of Snuffer

Synonyms of snuffers

Forms of snuffers

pluralsnuffers

Phrases with snuffers

Questions about snuffers

What does snuffers mean?
Snuffers means synonym of snuffer (“device to extinguish candles”).
What is snuffers the plural of?
Snuffers is the plural of snuffer.
What part of speech is snuffers?
Snuffers can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of snuffers?
The plural of snuffers is snuffers.

Words near snuffers in the dictionary

  1. snuffed it
  2. snuffed out
  3. snuffee
  4. snuffees
  5. snuffer
  6. snuffers
  7. snuffier
  8. snuffiest
  9. snuffily
  10. snuffiness
  11. snuffing

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