What does snoof mean?
Snoof means To sniff around, usually in the search for food..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
To sniff around, usually in the search for food..
[…] it means when a person lacks his sense of smell. I'm glad I'm not snoof.
Luckily, they're all ‘snoof’." "What?" said Michael […]. "It's a portmanteau syllable for 'Got no sense of smell to speak of.' And wanted, too. One says 'deaf,' 'blind,' 'dumb'—why not ‘snoof’?"
And the word "snoof" has been brought forth (by an analogy with "deaf") to describe someone who is devoid of, or deficient in, the sense of smell.
My mother-in-law, Louise Field Cooper, used the word snoof to convey some of this meaning, as in “he has such a bad cold he's gone totally snoof.
Use snoof when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Snoof means To sniff around, usually in the search for food..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
[…] it means when a person lacks his sense of smell. I'm glad I'm not snoof.
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