SNUFFING

Definition: SNUFFING

SNUFFING

Personal pronoun & verb & noun

1. Of Snuff

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "SNUFFING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Insolence	Tempt Providence, want snuffing.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: SNUFFING

English words defined with "SNUFFING": Snuffingly ♦ To snuff out. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Ku Klux Klan snuffing out the torch on the Statue of Liberty. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Theodule, for his part, even while snuffing the inheritance, revolted at the drudgery of pleasing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"SNUFFING" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "SNUFFING" is used about 16 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (-ing form)	100%	16	87,710

Expression using "SNUFFING": want snuffing. Additional references.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "SNUFFING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Chinese		吸入 (inhalation, inhale, inhaled, inhaling, Snuffed). (various references)

Danish		snusen. (various references)

Dutch		om een brandende wilde put vanaf het oppervlak weer onder controle te krijgen,moet eerst de brand worden geblust;bij toepassing van de explosietechniek wordt boven de brand een dynamietcapsule tot ontploffing gebracht,waardoor de voor verbranding nodige z (in order to recap a burning wild well from the surface, the fire must first be extinguished;with the explosive snuffing technique the blast from a dynamite capsule positioned over the fire uses the oxygen necessary for conflagration and the fire is snuffed out). (various references)

French		reniflement (sniff, sniffing, sniffling). (various references)

German		schnupfend. (various references)

Italian		per poter ripristinare un pozzo eruttivo incendiato alla superficie,dev'essere prima estinto il fuoco;con la tecnica dello spegnimento mediante esplosivi,lo scoppio di una capsula(carica)di dinamite(o tritolo)sistemata nelle adiacenze del fuoco consuma l' (in order to recap a burning wild well from the surface, the fire must first be extinguished;with the explosive snuffing technique the blast from a dynamite capsule positioned over the fire uses the oxygen necessary for conflagration and the fire is snuffed out). (various references)

Korean		�"�이쉼. (various references)

Pig Latin		uffingsnay

Portuguese		fungadela (sniff, snuff). (various references)

Russian		нюхать нюхание нюхающий. (various references)

Scottish		snotraich. (various references)

Spanish		para recuperar desde la superficie el control sobre un pozo en erupcion libre incendiado debe extinguirse primeramente el fuego;en la tecnica de extincion con explosivos la explosion de una carg a de dinamita colocada sobre el fuego consume el oxigeno nec (in order to recap a burning wild well from the surface, the fire must first be extinguished;with the explosive snuffing technique the blast from a dynamite capsule positioned over the fire uses the oxygen necessary for conflagration and the fire is snuffed out). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"SNUFFING" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nuffing, sluffing. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "SNUFFING" (pronounced snu"fing)
4	-u" f i ng	bluffing, huffing, puffing, rebuffing, roughing, ruffing, stuffing.
3	-f i ng	beefing, briefing, chafing, choreographing, coffing, coughing, debriefing, doffing, dwarfing, engulfing, fireproofing, golfing, goofing, knifing, laughing, leafing, morphing, offing, photographing, proofing, roofing, rustproofing, sniffing, spiffing, spoofing, staffing, strafing, surfing, waterproofing.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-f-g-i-n-n-s-u"
	-2 letters: fusing.
	-3 letters: fungi, guffs, sniff, snuff, suing, using.
	-4 letters: figs, fins, fugs, funs, gins, gnus, guff, guns, inns, nuns, sign, sing, snug, sung, sunn.
	-5 letters: fig, fin, fug, fun, gin, gnu, gun, iff, ifs, inn, ins, nun, nus, sin, sun, uns.
	Words containing the letters "f-f-g-i-n-n-s-u"
	+1 letter: snuffling.
	+4 letters: insufflating.
	+5 letters: faultfindings, understaffing.
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