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Word entry · 5 letters

snuff

Best crossword clue

"Powdered tobacco"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /snʌf/Part of speech verb, adjective, nounSorted ffnsuStarts with SEnds with F1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. inhale (something) through the nose

Word origin

Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch snuffen (“to snuff, sniff, snuffle”).

Used in a sentence

  • The native of some South American tribes use this drug as an aphrodisiac in the form of a snuff called cohoba.
  • Dry snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist snuffs, as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.
  • […] most of the women dipped snuff and of course had a spit-cup in the house.

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0

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