What does snuffy mean?
Snuffy means Soiled with snuff..
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/ˈsnʌfi/ · adjective
Soiled with snuff..
I must now let you know what sort of a personage this same First President is; you imagine that he is a disagreeable snuffy old fellow
The postchaise contained a snuffy old dowager of seventy, with a maid, her contemporary.
She could fight, too, when I got snuffy. […] Once I come home from elk camp so drunk I couldn't hardly sit my horse, and Sylvie near to kilt me, she fought me so hard.
Giving that up, she took a broom and a duster and went upstairs to housemaid Mrs Dibble's bedroom, with her head tied up in a coloured scarf. It was a dusty, snuffy job, for penuriousness in Mrs Dibble refused to throw anything away, including dirt, and if anything fell on the floor it remained there.
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Snuffy means Soiled with snuff..
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I must now let you know what sort of a personage this same First President is; you imagine that he is a disagreeable snuffy old fellow
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