Snuff

Definition: Snuff

Snuff

Adjective

1. Snuff colored; grayish to yellowish brown.

Noun

1. Finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose.

2. A charred candlewick.

3. Sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose.

Verb

1. Sniff or smell inquiringly.

Date "snuff" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1594. (references)

Domain	Definition
Dream Interpretation	To dream of snuff, signifies your enemies are seducing the confidence of your friends. For a woman to use it in her dreams, foretells complications which will involve her separation from a favored friend. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....
Food & Agriculture	A powder which is inhaled through the nostrils and which is usually irritating to the nasal membrane. Source: European Union. (references)
Literature	Snuff Up to snuff. Wide awake, knowing, sharp; not easily taken in or imposed upon; alive to scent (Dutch, snuffen, to scent, snuf; Danish, sn�fte). Took it in snuff - in anger, in huff. "You'll mar the light by taking it in snuff." Shakespeare: Love's Labour's Lost, v. 2. "Who, ... when it next came there, took it in snuff."- Shakespeare: 1 Henry IV., i. 3. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.
Slang in 1811	SNUFF. To take snuff; to be offended. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Snuff can refer to any of the following:

Fine-ground smokeless tobacco, intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose
To kill, as in a Snuff movie

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Snuff (movie)

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Snuff is a film produced by the husband-and-wife grindhouse filmmaking team of Michael and Roberta Findlay. It was filmed in 1971 and released in 1975.

It was originally titled Slaughter, and had been conceived as a story about a Manson-esque murder cult. Later, an ending that purported to show the murder of a crew member was added, filmed in a vérité style. This was done, apparently, as a marketing ploy, so that the fake on-camera death could be promoted as being genuine. The promoters of the film even went so far as to hire fake protesters to picket the movie theaters showing the film.

Snuff is believed to have started the legend of snuff films.

Synonyms: Snuff

Synonyms: chukker-brown (adj), mummy-brown (adj), snuff-brown (adj), sniff (n), snuffle (v). (additional references)

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.
Death	Pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death. (be killed).
Destruction	Deal destruction, desolate, devastate, lay waste, ravage gut; disorganize; dismantle; (render useless); devour, swallow up, sap, mine, blast, bomb, blow to smithereens, drop the big one, confound; exterminate, extinguish, quench, annihilate; snuff out, put out, stamp out, trample out; lay in the dust, trample in the dust; prostrate; tread under foot; crush under foot, trample under foot; lay the ax to the root of; make short work of, make clean sweep of, make mincemeat of; cut up root and branch, chop into pieces, cut into ribbons; fling to the winds, scatter to the winds; throw overboard; strike at the root of, sap the foundations of, spring a mine, blow up, ravage with fire and sword; cast to the dogs; eradicate.
Insulation, Fire extinction	Extinguish; damp, slack, quench, smother; put out, stamp out; douse, snuff, snuff out, blow out.
Pungency	Render -pungent. Adjective: season, spice, salt, pepper, pickle, brine, devil. smoke, chew, take snuff.
	Nicotine, tobacco, snuff, quid, smoke; segar; cigar, cigarette; weed; fragrant weed, Indian weed; Cavendish, fid, negro head, old soldier, rappee, stogy.
Reception	Verb: give entrance to, give admittance to, give the entree; introduce, intromit; usher, admit, receive, import, bring in, open the door to, throw in, ingest, absorb, imbibe, inhale, breathe in; let in, take in, suck in, draw in; readmit, resorb, reabsorb; snuff up, swallow, ingurgitate; engulf, engorge; gulp; eat, drink; (food).
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.
Unimportance	Straw, pin, fig, button, rush; bulrush, feather, halfpenny, farthing, brass farthing, doit, peppercorn, jot, rap, pinch of snuff, old son; cent, mill, picayune, pistareen, red cent.
Wind	Respire, breathe, puff; whiff, whiffle; gasp, wheeze; snuff, snuffle; sniff, sniffle; sneeze, cough.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	You snuff 'em, we stuff 'em. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)
Lyrics	And teach the world to snuff the fires and the liars (WALKIN' ON THE SUN; performing artist: Smash Mouth)
Movie/TV Titles	The Ivory Snuff Box (1915) Berlin Snuff (1995) A Pinch of Snuff (1994) Vítimas do Prazer Snuff (1977) The Evolution of Snuff (1977)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A Pinch of Snuff (reference) Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (reference) Chinese Snuff Bottles (Images of Asia) (reference) Inside-Painted Snuff Bottle Artist Ma Shaoxuan (reference) Snuff Bottles from China (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Journal Of The International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society (reference) (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies	Snuff Bottle Connection (reference) Snuff (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Snuff the Punk (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Thumbnail	Description & Credit	Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Negro woman dipping snuff while watching them make sorghum syrup at Cane Mill, on Wes Chris' property near Carr, Orange County, North Carolina. See general notes on subregion, September 28, 1939. Credit: Library of Congress.		The snuff shelf in the Jarrell store in Penfield. Greene County, Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.
	The tobacco and snuff shelf at Mr. Whitaker's store in Greshamville. Greene County Georgia. Credit: Library of Congress.
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Play	Caption	Play	Caption
	Gorilla; sniff; sniffing; smelling; detect; inhale; inspire; scent; scent; nose; smell; snift; snuff; snuffle.		Fire; extinguisher; extinguish; put out; fireman; firefighter; douse; dout; drown; out; quench; smother; snuff out; stamp out; stifle; suffocate.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	When he was satisfied with himself, he allowed himself a pinch of snuff.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Smokeless tobacco products such as snuff and chewing tobacco also contain many toxins as well as high levels of nicotine. (references)
Economic History	Pakistan	About half of the total production is used for cigarette manufacturing and the remainder used in traditional ways of smoking ( i.e in hand-rolled cigarettes called "birris", in water pipes, and as snuff). (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Snuff" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 71.90% of the time. "Snuff" is used about 121 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
Noun (singular)	71.9%	87	35,390
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	19.01%	23	72,767
Lexical Verb (base form)	8.26%	10	111,207
Noun (proper)	0.83%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	121	N/A

Expressions using "snuff": be up to snuff ♦ give smb. snuff ♦ moist snuff ♦ oral moist snuff ♦ oral snuff ♦ pinch of snuff ♦ snuff box ♦ snuff dipping ♦ snuff it ♦ snuff out ♦ snuff taker ♦ snuff user ♦ take a snuff ♦ take snuff ♦ takers od snuff ♦ To dip snuff ♦ To snuff out ♦ To take it in snuff ♦ up to snuff. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "snuff": snuff-allergy, snuff-bottle, snuff-box, snuff-boxes, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colored, snuff-colour, snuff-coloured, snuff-content, snuff-handkerchief, snuff-making, snuff-movie, snuff-sniffing, snuff-taker, snuff-taking.
	Ending with "snuff": brain-snuff, candle-snuff.
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.

Language		Translations for "snuff"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		thith (absorb, draw, draw down, drink, imbibe, immerse, inhale, nipple, pull at, soak, soak up, sop, suck, suck in, take up), pjesë e djegur, nuhatjeje, nuhat (nose, nuzzle, scent, smell, smelt), nuhas (perceive, scent, smell, smelt), heq pjesë të djegur, burnot. (various references)

Arabic		‏قص راس الشمع, ‏تشمم (follow one's nose, sniff), ‏سعوط, ‏عاطوس, ‏الزهلق الجزء المتحرق من الشمعة, ‏إستنشق (inhale, sniff, whiff), ‏شم (acumen, feel, nose, scent, smell, sniff, snort). (various references)

Bulgarian		смъркам емфие, всмръкване, нагар на свещ, емфие, прах за всмръкване, помирисване (sniff), подушвам (get wind of, nose, scent, smell, smell out, wind), подсмърчане (sniff, snivel), подсмърквам (sniff, snivel, snuffle), изчиствам нагара на свещ. (various references)

Chinese		鼻煙 , 灯花. (various references)

Czech		vìtřit (nose, sniff), uhasit svíèku, oharek (cinder, stub, stump), šòupat (sniff, snort, take snuff), šòupací tabák. (various references)

Danish		snustobak. (various references)

Dutch		snuiftabak. (various references)

Farsi		فوت (Death, Gust, Puff), پف (Puff, Whiff), ملامت (Rebuke, Reproof, Tax), نفس (Air, Breath, Ego, Oneself, Self, Wind), نوک فتیله , توبیخ (Rail, Reproach, Vituperation), عطسه کردن (Sneeze), خاموش سازی یافوت , خاموش شدن (Silence, Still), انفیه زنی , انفیه زدن , انفیه , شهیق (Air, Inhalation, Inspiration), دم زنی (Respiration), بافوت خاموش کردن . (various references)

Finnish		nuuska. (various references)

French		tabac � priser. (various references)

German		schnupftabak. (various references)

Greek		κόπτω το φυτίλι, καύτρα κεριού, καύτρα, καπνός εισρόφησης, σκόνη ταμπάκου, σβήνω (blow out, burn out, delete, die out, erase, extinguish, fade away, faint, go out, obliterate, put out, quench, rub out, slake, snuff out, switch off, turn off, wipe out), πρέζα (pinch), φιτίλι (fuse, wich, wick), εισπνέω οσφραινόμενοσ, ταμπάκοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		לשאוף באף (sniff, snuffle), לכבות ב� שיפ�" (blow out), טבק �"רח�". (various references)

Hungarian		szuszog (to blow like a grampus, to puff, to puff like a grampus, to sniffle, to snift, to snuff), tubákolás, tubákol (to snuff, to take snuff), dohányszínû. (various references)

Italian		tabacco da fiuto. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		嗅ぎ煙草 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		かぎたば�". (various references)

Korean		�"담배. (various references)

Manx		sneeshyn, smigh, goaill sneeshyn. (various references)

Pig Latin		uffsnay

Portuguese		rapé (dado). (various references)

Romanian		tutun (baccy, shag, tobacco, tobacco plant), tabac (baccy, rappee, tobacco), tãia mucul, priza (sniff, take snuff), nãrui (confound, crumble, dash, defeat, destroy, raze, ruin, slip), muc (stub, stump, Wick), aspira cu putere. (various references)

Russian		нюхать (nose, nuzzle, smell, sniff at). (various references)

Scottish		snaoisean, smal (blemish, dust, speck, spot, stain), gradan. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		zažaren pepeo na fitilju sveće, ugasiti (douse, extinguish, put out, quench, slake, switch off, turn off, turn out), ušmrkati (snuff it), onjušiti (smell, sniff, snuff it), burmut, žutomrk (khaki, tan, tawny), šmrk burmuta. (various references)

Spanish		rapé. (various references)

Swedish		vädra (about doogs, air, scent, smell, sniff, ventilate, wind), snusa (sniff), snus. (various references)

Thai		สู�"กลิ่น, สู�"ยานัตถุ์, ยานัตถุ์, �"ับไฟ. (various references)

Turkish		yanmış mum ipini kesmek, mum ipinin yanık ucu, kokusunu almak (get an inkling of, have a scent for smth., nose out, perceive the smell of, savor, savour, scent, smell, smell out, sniff, taste blood, wind), koklamak (nose, nose around, smell, sniff), enfiye çekmek (take snuff), enfiye, burnuna çekmek (sniff, sniff in, sniff up), burnuna çekme (sniff). (various references)

Ukrainian		сопіти (blurt, nuzzle, sniff, snuffle), сопіння (sniff, snuffle), нюхати тютюн, нюхальний тютюн, нагар на свічці, набійка (calkin), знімати нагар, ліки для вдихання через ніс. (various references)

Vietnamese		hoa đèn. (various references)

Welsh		snwffian (sniff, snuffle, whimper), snisin, trewlwch, ffroeni (sniff, snort). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "snuff": snuffbox, snuffboxes, snuffed, snuffer, snuffers, snuffier, snuffiest, snuffily, snuffing, snuffle, snuffled, snuffler, snufflers, snuffles, snufflier, snuffliest, snuffling, snuffly, snuffs, snuffy. (additional references)
	Words containing "snuff": candlesnuffer, candlesnuffers. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Snuff" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: enuff, Esnouf, nuff, sauff, Senufo, shuf, shuff, skuf, sluf, sluff, snef, snuf, suff, suffa. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "snuff" (pronounced snu"f)
3	-n u" f	enough.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "f-f-n-s-u"
	-1 letter: funs.
	-2 letters: fun, nus, sun, uns.
	-3 letters: nu, un, us.
	Words containing the letters "f-f-n-s-u"
	+1 letter: snuffs, snuffy.
	+2 letters: muffins, puffins, runoffs, snuffed, snuffer, snuffle, snuffly, uncuffs.
	+3 letters: affusion, buffoons, effusing, effusion, funfairs, ruffians, scuffing, sluffing, snuffbox, snuffers, snuffier, snuffily, snuffing, snuffled, snuffler, snuffles, stuffing, turnoffs, unstuffy.
	+4 letters: affluents, affusions, bluffness, bouffants, cufflinks, dandruffs, diffusing, diffusion, effluents, effusions, furfurans, gruffness, handcuffs, huffiness, moufflons, puffiness, scuffling, shuffling, snuffiest, snufflers, snufflier, snuffling, stuffings, suffering, sufficing, suffixing, suffragan, suffusing, suffusion, uncoffins, unmuffles.
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 6E 75 66 66

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

... -. ..- ..-. ..-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01101110 01110101 01100110 01100110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#110 &#117 &#102 &#102

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 006E 0075 0066 0066

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
snuff	1,801	photo snuff	21
snuff video	584	film snuff video	21
fotos gore snuff	287	gratis snuff video	20
snuff film	246	snuff box	18
snuff movie	210	fantasy snuff	17
copenhagen snuff	143	free snuff	17
fotos snuff	128	cine snuff	15
snuff story	86	clip snuff	15
snuff sex	56	oregon mint snuff	14
picture snuff	54	nasal snuff	12
psuedo snuff	51	chinese snuff bottle	12
snuff x	44	site snuff	12
snuff bottle	37	mountain smokey snuff	11
snuff porn	34	art snuff	11
snuff pic	31	kodiak snuff	10
snuff bullet	27	snuff dispenser	10
mint snuff	26	snuff the punk	9
free snuff video	25	snuff flick	9
tobacco snuff	24	snuff swedish	8
peliculas snuff	23	snuff xxx	8
		gay snuff	8
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Snuff

Definition: Snuff

Snuff

Adjective

Noun

Verb

Specialty Definition: Snuff

Specialty Definition: Snuff

Snuff (movie)

Synonyms: Snuff

Synonyms within Context: Snuff

Cunning

Death

Destruction

Insulation, Fire extinction

Pungency

Reception

Skill

Unimportance

Wind

Crosswords: Snuff

Modern Usage: Snuff

Screenplays

Lyrics

Movie/TV Titles

Commercial Usage: Snuff

Books

Periodicals

Theater & Movies

Music

Photo Album: Snuff

Sounds Captioned with "Snuff".

Use in Literature: Snuff

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Non-Fiction Usage: Snuff

Usage Frequency: Snuff

Expressions: Snuff

Frequency of Internet Keywords: Snuff

Modern Translation: Snuff

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Japanese Kanji

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Derivations & Misspellings: Snuff

Derivations

Misspellings

Rhyming with "Snuff"

Anagrams: Snuff

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Alternative Orthography: Snuff

53 6E 75 66 66