snuffy
adj/ˈsnʌfi/
Etymology From snuff + -y.
1
Soiled with snuff.
2
Resembling or characteristic of snuff.
- 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
- The postchaise contained a snuffy old dowager of seventy, with a maid, her contemporary.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
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 there.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 32:
- Derived terms
- snuffily, snuffiness