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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Up to Snuff (See Snuff .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cunning | Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff. |
Skill | Clever, cute, able, ingenious, felicitous, gifted, talented, endowed; inventive; shrewd, sharp, on the ball; (intelligent); cunning; alive to, up to snuff, not to be caught with chaff; discreet. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: UP TO SNUFF |
| Specialty definitions using "UP TO SNUFF": Old Blade. (references) |
Expression using "UP TO SNUFF": be up to snuff. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "UP TO SNUFF"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Hebrew | ממולח (hardheaded, salty, sharp, shrewd, smart, witty). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hungarian | szemfüles (mercurial, to be up to snuff, vigilant, watchful). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | upay otay uffsnay kurnaz olmak (be up to snuff), keyifli olmak (be of good cheer, be up to snuff), keyfi yerinde olmak (be up to snuff), kül yutmamak (be up to snuff). (various references) | ||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "f-f-n-o-p-s-t-u-u" | |
-2 letters: putoffs. | |
-3 letters: founts, futons, pouffs, puntos, putoff, putons, unstop. | |
-4 letters: fonts, fount, futon, pouff, poufs, pouts, puffs, punto, punts, puton, snout, snuff, spout, stoup, stuff, sunup, toffs, tofus, tonus, tuffs. | |
-5 letters: fons, font, fops, funs, nous, nuts, offs, onus, opts, opus, oust, outs, pfft, pons, post, pots, pouf, pout, puff, puns, punt, puts, snot. | |
| 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. | |
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