{f} inhale, breathe in through the nose; sniff, smell; examine by smelling (as of animals); inhale snuff; destroy; extinguish; cut off the burned end of a candle wick
Snuff is powdered tobacco which people take by breathing it in quickly through their nose
finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time the charred portion of a candlewick inhale audibly through the nose; "snuff coke"
{i} act of inhaling, breathing in; sound made when breathing in; powdered tobacco that is inhaled through the nose; burnt end of a candle wick
Up to snuff Wide awake, knowing, sharp; not easily taken in or imposed upon; alive to scent (Dutch, snuffen, to scent, snuf; Danish, snöfte) 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 Snuff Out He was snuffed out - put down, eclipsed The allusion is to a candle snuffed with snuffers
Up to snuff Wide awake, knowing, sharp; not easily taken in or imposed upon; alive to scent (Dutch, snuffen, to scent, snuf; Danish, snöfte) 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 Snuff Out He was snuffed out - put down, eclipsed The allusion is to a candle snuffed with snuffers
To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense