snuffish

adj

snuffish

adj

Etymology From snuff + -ish.

1

Resembling or characteristic of snuff; snuffy.

  • He had just given Rabbi Piltz his monthly check-up, and the snuffish odor of the old man lingered in the examining room.1970, Charles Angoff, Meyer Levin, The Rise of American Jewish Literature, page 644:

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