Synonyms of the word snuff


SNUFFBACCY - CHAR - CHROMATIC - HINT - INHALE - INSPIRE - JOT - MITE - PINCH - SMELL - SMELLING - SNIFF - SNUFFLE - SOUPCON - SPECK - TINGE - TOBACCO - TOUCH

snuff

  • n. Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
  • n. Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or…
  • n. A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
  • n. The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
  • n. Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
  • n. (obsolete) Snot, mucus.
  • n. (obsolete) Smell, scent, odour.
  • v. To inhale through the nose.
  • v. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
  • n. The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which has to be periodically…
  • n. (obsolete) Leavings in a glass after drinking; heeltaps.
  • n. (slang) A murder.
  • n. (attributive) A form of pornographic film which involves someone's actually being murdered.
  • v. To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
  • v. (obsolete) To trim the burnt part of a candle wick.
  • v. (slang) To kill a person; to snuff out.

baccy

  • n. (slang) Tobacco.

char

  • v. (ergative) To burn something to charcoal.
  • v. To burn slightly or superficially so as to affect colour.
  • n. A charred substance.
  • n. One of the several species of fishes of the genus Salvelinus.
  • n. (obsolete) A time; a turn or occasion.
  • n. (obsolete) A turn of work; a labour or item of business.
  • n. An odd job, a chore or piece of housework.
  • n. A charlady, a woman employed to do housework; cleaning lady.
  • v. (obsolete) To turn, especially away or aside.
  • v. To work, especially to do housework; to work by the day, without being a regularly hired servant.
  • v. (obsolete) To perform; to do; to finish.
  • v. To work or hew (stone, etc.).
  • n. (computing, programming) A character (text element such as a letter or symbol).
  • n. (Britain) Alternative form of cha.

chromatic

  • adj. Relating to or characterised by hue.
  • adj. Having the capacity to separate spectral colours by refraction.
  • adj. (music) Related to or using notes not belonging to the diatonic scale of the key in which a passage is…

hint

  • n. A clue.
  • n. A tacit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
  • n. A small, barely detectable amount of.
  • n. (computing) Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should…
  • n. (obsolete) An opportunity; occasion; fit time.
  • v. (intransitive) To suggest tacitly without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
  • v. (transitive) To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
  • v. (transitive) To develop and add hints to a font.

inhale

  • v. (intransitive) To draw air into the lungs, through the nose or mouth by action of the diaphragm.
  • v. (transitive) To draw air or any form of gas (either in a pure form, or mixed with small particles in form…
  • v. (transitive, figuratively) To eat very quickly.

inspire

  • v. (transitive) To infuse into the mind; to communicate to the spirit; to convey, as by a divine or supernatural…
  • v. (transitive) To infuse into; to affect, as with a superior or supernatural influence; to fill with what…
  • v. (intransitive) To draw in by the operation of breathing; to inhale.
  • v. To infuse by breathing, or as if by breathing.
  • v. (archaic, transitive) To breathe into; to fill with the breath; to animate.
  • v. (transitive) To spread rumour indirectly.

jot

  • n. Iota; the smallest letter or stroke of any writing.
  • n. A small amount, bit; the smallest amount.
  • n. (obsolete) Moment, instant.
  • n. A brief and hurriedly written note.
  • v. (usually with "down") To write quickly.

mite

  • n. A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species.
  • n. A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing.
  • n. A lepton, a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.
  • n. A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.
  • n. (sometimes used advernially) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.
  • n. (colloquial, often used affectionately) A small or naughty person, or one you take pity on; rascal.
  • v. Eye dialect spelling of might.

pinch

  • v. To squeeze a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
  • v. To squeeze between the thumb and forefinger.
  • v. To squeeze between two objects.
  • v. To steal, usually of something almost trivial or inconsequential.
  • v. (slang) To arrest or capture.
  • v. (horticulture) To cut shoots or buds of a plant in order to shape the plant, or to improve its yield.
  • v. (nautical) To sail so close-hauled that the sails begin to flutter.
  • v. (hunting) To take hold; to grip, as a dog does.
  • v. (obsolete) To be niggardly or covetous.
  • v. To seize; to grip; to bite; said of animals.
  • v. (figuratively) To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve.
  • v. To move, as a railroad car, by prying the wheels with a pinch.
  • v. (obsolete) To complain or find fault.
  • n. The action of squeezing a small amount of a person's skin and flesh, making it hurt.
  • n. A small amount of powder or granules, such that the amount could be held between fingertip and thumb tip.
  • n. An awkward situation of some kind (especially money or social) which is difficult to escape.
  • n. An organic herbal smoke additive.

smell

  • n. A sensation, pleasant or unpleasant, detected by inhaling air (or, the case of water-breathing animals,…
  • n. (physiology) The sense that detects odours.
  • v. (transitive) To sense a smell or smells.
  • v. (intransitive) To have a particular smell, whether good or bad; if descriptive, followed by "like" or…
  • v. (intransitive, without a modifier) To smell bad; to stink.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To have a particular tincture or smack of any quality; to savour.
  • v. (obsolete) To exercise sagacity.
  • v. To detect or perceive; often with out.
  • v. (obsolete) To give heed to.

smelling

  • v. present participle of smell.
  • v. Used in adjectival compounds.
  • n. The act by which something is smelled.

sniff

  • n. An instance of sniffing.
  • n. A quantity of something that is inhaled through the nose.
  • n. (colloquial) A brief perception, or tiny amount.
  • v. (transitive, intransitive) To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as if to smell something.
  • v. To say something while sniffing, for example in case of illness or unhappiness, or in contempt.
  • v. (transitive) To perceive vaguely.
  • v. To be dismissive or contemptuous of something.
  • v. (computing) To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network.
  • v. (slang, Britain) To inhale drugs in powder form (usually cocaine) through the nose.
  • interj. A short inhalation sound, sometimes associated with crying.

snuffle

  • v. (intransitive) To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
  • v. (intransitive) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to…
  • n. An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.

soupcon

  • n. Alternative form of soupçon.

speck

  • n. (countable) A tiny spot, especially of dirt etc.
  • n. A very small thing; a particle; a whit.
  • n. A small etheostomoid fish, Etheostoma (Doration) stigmaeum, common in the eastern United States.
  • v. (transitive) To mark with specks; to speckle.
  • n. Fat; lard; fat meat.
  • n. (uncountable) A juniper-flavoured ham originally from Tyrol.
  • n. The blubber of whales or other marine mammals.
  • n. The fat of the hippopotamus.

tinge

  • n. A small amount of something, especially of an added color.
  • n. The degree of vividness of a color; shade, hue or tint.
  • v. (transitive) To add a small amount of color; to tint.
  • v. (transitive) To imbue or impregnate.

tobacco

  • n. (uncountable) Any plant of the genus Nicotiana.
  • n. (uncountable) Leaves of Nicotiana tabacum and some other species cultivated and harvested to make cigarettes,…
  • n. (countable) A variety of tobacco.

touch

  • v. Primarily physical senses.
  • v. Primarily non-physical senses.
  • v. To try; to prove, as with a touchstone.
  • v. To mark or delineate with touches; to add a slight stroke to with the pencil or brush.
  • v. (obsolete) To infect; to affect slightly.
  • v. To strike; to manipulate; to play on.
  • v. To perform, as a tune; to play.
  • v. To influence by impulse; to impel forcibly.
  • n. An act of touching, especially with the hand or finger.
  • n. The faculty or sense of perception by physical contact.
  • n. The style or technique with which one plays a musical instrument.
  • n. A distinguishing feature or characteristic.
  • n. A little bit; a small amount.
  • n. The part of a sports field beyond the touchlines or goal-lines.
  • n. A relationship of close communication or understanding.
  • n. The ability to perform a task well; aptitude.
  • n. (obsolete) Act or power of exciting emotion.
  • n. (obsolete) An emotion or affection.
  • n. (obsolete) Personal reference or application.
  • n. A single stroke on a drawing or a picture.
  • n. (obsolete) A brief essay.
  • n. (obsolete) A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
  • n. (obsolete) Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
  • n. (music) The particular or characteristic mode of action, or the resistance of the keys of an instrument…
  • n. (shipbuilding) The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion…
  • n. The children's game of tag.
  • n. (bell-ringing) A set of changes less than the total possible on seven bells, i.e. less than 5,040.
  • n. (slang) An act of borrowing or stealing something.
  • n. (Britain, plumbing, dated) tallow.

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