snuffer
nounEtymology From snuff + -er.
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:
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).
- Synonyms
- candle snuffer