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Definition: SNUFFY |
SNUFFYAdjective1. Sulky; angry; vexed. 2. Soiled with snuff. |
Date "SNUFFY" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1839. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Uncleanness | Adjective: dirty, filthy, grimy; unclean, impure; soiled; Verb: not to be handled with kid gloves; dusty, snuffy, smutty, sooty, smoky; thick, turbid, dreggy; slimy; mussy. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Private Snuffy Smith (1942) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
smith snuffy | 45 |
snuffy | 22 |
sesame snuffy street | 11 |
cartoon smith snuffy | 5 |
snuffy walden | 4 |
snuffy w.g walden | 3 |
smith snuffy song theme | 3 |
snuffy jenkins | 2 |
comic smith snuffy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "SNUFFY"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | si burnot, i njollosur nga burnoti. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | раздразнен (annoyed, disgruntled, excited, ill-humored, ill-humoured, peeved, raspy, roily, rusty, teed off), с цвят на емфие, високомерен (airy, cavalier, domineering, grand, high and mighty, imperious, lofty, lordly, overweening, proud, snooty, stiff necked, top-lofty), нервен (edgy, fidgety, jerky, jittery, jumpy, nervous, nervy, neural, neurotic, on edge, ratty, restless, spooky, windy), пожълтял от емфие. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | funící (snorting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verschnupft (bunged up, huffs, peeved, Sniffy, with a cold). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mocskos (begrimed, drossy, filthy, foulmouthed, grimy, messy, ribald, scurrilous, scuzzy, sleazo, sleazy, sordid, spotty, squalid, stinky). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 부르퉁한. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uffysnay sujo de rapé, semelhante a rapé, rabugento (acrimonious, atrabilious, brutal, criss-cross, crusty, currish, faultfinding, fiddle-faddle, fractious, fretful, frumpish, grouty, gruff, harsh, moody, morose, peevish, pettish, querulous, rough, shrewish, sour, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy, unkind, unpleasant), que cheira a rapé, descontente (acidulated, disaffected, discontent, discontented, disgruntled, dissatisfactory, impatient, malcontent, sorehead, unsatisfied). (various references) supãrat (angry, cross, furious, irritated, magged, Moody, peeved, peevishly, petulantly, poutingly, sad, sulky, sullen, sullenly), neplãcut (acrid, annoying, bad, beastly, bothersome, brackish, dark, disagreeable, dreadful, forbidding, hard, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, nasty, niggling, objectionable, obnoxious, obnoxiously, offensive, offensively, provoking, sorry, ugly, unlucky, unpleasant, unsavory, unsavoury, unwelcome), morocãnos (adust, crabbed, cross-grained, crusty, grouty, gruff, grumbling, grumbly, grumpish, grumpy, ill tempered, morose, morosely, peevish, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tetchy). (various references) сердитый (angry, crabbed, cross, grouty, grumpy, irate, rambunctious, rusty, shirty, sour, surly), раздражительный (apoplectic, bad tempered, bad-tempered, chippy, choleric, crab, crabbed, crabby, criss cross, crusty, doggish, fractious, fretful, grouty, grumpy, huffish, huffy, irascible, irritable, livery, ornery, peevish, pettish, petulant, quick tempered, quicktempered, rambunctious, rusty, short tempered, snappish, snooty, spleenful, splenetic, testy, touchy). (various references) sličan burmutu. (various references) enfadado (aggravating, angry, cross, huffy, passionate, ratty, vexed), altanero (arrogant, bumbling, haughty, high and mighty, lofty, pride, proud, snooty, stuck up, supercilious, upstage). (various references) snusig, snusbrun, retlig (crabbed, fretful, fretting, ill tempered, irritable, moody, peevish, pettish, snappy, testy, touchy, waspish), överlägsen (lofty, overweening, pre eminent, pre-eminent, superior, supreme, transcendent, upstage). (various references) ters (acrimonious, adverse, agley, Amiss, awkward, awry, backward, backwards, bad tempered, bloody minded, churlish, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, crabbed, cranky, curt, cussed, dour, face down, fractious, fretful, Froward, frowning, grumpy, ill natured, illegitimate, indecorous, inimical, inverse, inversely, inverted, mis-, negative, off, opposing, opposite, perverse, retro-, reverse, sub-, unfavorable, unfavourable, upside down, versed, wayward, wrong, wrongly), enfiyeli, enfiye gibi, düzensiz (chaotic, desultory, disordered, disorderly, disorganized, erratic, excursive, fitful, freehand, haywire, hugger mugger, huggermugger, indigested, inordinate, irregular, jerky, nonuniform, non-uniform, out of order, out of square, out of trim, out-of-balance, patchily, patchy, ragged, rambling, snatchy, unequal, unkempt, unsteady, untidy), aksi (adverse, awkward, bad tempered, bilious, bloody minded, cantankerous, contra, contra-, contrary, counter, crabbed, crabby, cross, cross-grained, crosspatch, crotchety, doggish, dour, evil, fractious, fretful, Froward, gruff, ill natured, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, inverse, negatory, opposite, peevish, perverse, petulant, recalcitrant, refractory, reverse, shirty, snappish, spleenful, spleenish, stroppy, stubborn, sullen, surly, tart, testy, unfavorable, unfavourable, unfortunate, unhappy, unlucky, untoward, wrongheaded). (various references) що нюха" тютюн, тютюнового кольору, ображений (aggrieved, humiliated, injured, pained, resentful, sore), надутий (blown, inflated, mumpish, rounded, wind-blown). (various references) bực tức (rusty). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-f-n-s-u-y" | |
-1 letter: snuff. | |
-2 letters: funs. | |
-3 letters: fun, nus, sun, syn, uns. | |
-4 letters: nu, un, us. | |
| Words containing the letters "f-f-n-s-u-y" | |
+1 letter: snuffly. | |
+2 letters: snuffily, unstuffy. | |
+5 letters: sufficiency. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 4E 55 46 46 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -. ..- ..-. ..-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01001110 01010101 01000110 01000110 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S N U F F Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 004E 0055 0046 0046 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)534855404059 |
| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Modern 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Orthography 8. Bibliography |
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