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snuffier

snuffier is the comparative form of snuffy.

Meaning of snuffy

Adjective

snuffy (comparative snuffier, superlative snuffiest)

  1. Soiled with snuff.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of snuff.
  3. (Scotland, obsolete) Sulky; angry; vexed.
    • I must now let you know what sort of a personage this same First President is; you imagine that he is a disagreeable snuffy old fellowMay 27 1680, Marchioness de Sévigné, letter to her daughter, published in English in 1745
  4. (slang) Drunk.
    • She could fight, too, when I got snuffy. […] Once I come home from elk camp so drunk I couldn't hardly sit my horse, and Sylvie near to kilt me, she fought me so hard.2014, Howard Frank Mosher, North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland
  5. That causes sniffing and nasal irritation due to dust.
    • Giving that up, she took a broom and a duster and went upstairs to housemaid Mrs Dibble's bedroom, with her head tied up in a coloured scarf. It was a dusty, snuffy job, for penuriousness in Mrs Dibble refused to throw anything away, including dirt, and if anything fell on the floor it remained...1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 32

Questions about snuffier

What is snuffier the comparative form of?
Snuffier is the comparative form of snuffy.

Words near snuffier in the dictionary

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

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