“snuffed” is a form of
snuff
/snʌf/ noun, verb
Forms snuffs snuffing snuffed
- noun Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
- noun Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue.
- noun A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
- noun The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
- noun Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
- noun (obsolete) Snot, mucus.
- noun (obsolete) Smell, scent, odour.
- verb (transitive) To inhale through the nose.
- verb (intransitive) To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense.
- verb (transitive, UK, Ireland, slang, obsolete) To drug (a person) with a mixture of snuff and beer.
- noun The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which must be periodically removed).
- noun (obsolete) Leavings in a glass after drinking; heeltaps.
- noun (slang) A murder.
- noun (attributive, slang) A video showing a real, non-acted murder.
- noun (informal, sexuality) Erotica focusing on a character's murder.
- verb To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
- verb (obsolete) To trim the burnt part of a candle wick.
- verb (slang) To snuff out; to extinguish; to put out; to kill.
Synonyms
chewing tobacco dip sniff snuffle snuff-brown mummy-brown chukker-brown
Etymology
Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch snuffen (“to snuff, sniff, snuffle”).
Related to Dutch snuiven (“to sniff”), Middle Low German snûve (“pose, head-cold”), German Schnupfen (“head-cold”). The noun is probably from Dutch snuf (“snuff”), an abbreviation of snuftabak, snuiftabak (“snuff”). Related to sniff (compare Dutch snuffen (“snuff”), German schnupf (“snuff”), French schnouff (“junk”)).
From Middle English snoffe, snuffe, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle Dutch snuf, snof (“snuff”), Dutch sneuvelen (“to die in battle”).
From Middle English snuffen, snoffen, from the noun (see Etymology 2 above).
Webster’s 1913
- noun The part of a candle wick charred by the flame, whether burning or not. If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup. Swift.
- verb To crop the snuff of, as a candle; to take off the end of the snuff of. To snuff out, to extinguish by snuffing.
- verb To draw in, or to inhale, forcibly through the nose; to sniff.
- verb To perceive by the nose; to scent; to smell.
Etymology [Cf. G. schnuppe candle snuff, schnuppen to snuff a candle (see Snuff, v. t., to snuff a candle), or cf. Snub, v. t.]
Etymology [OE. snuffen. See Snuff of a candle Snuff to sniff.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “snuff”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details