|  snuff 
 
 1. the charred portion of a candlewick
 • Hypernyms:
 char
 • Part Holonyms:
 candlewick
 2. a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
 • Hypernyms:
 touch, hint, tinge, mite, pinch,
 jot, speck, soupcon
 3. finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
 • Hypernyms:
 tobacco, baccy
 • Hyponyms:
 rappee
 4. sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
 • Syn:
 sniff
 • Derivationally related forms:
 sniff (for: sniff)
 • Hypernyms:
 smell, smelling
 
 1. sniff or smell inquiringly
 • Syn:
 snuffle
 • Hypernyms:
 smell
 • Verb Frames:
 - Somebody ----s something
 2. inhale audibly through the nose
 - snuff coke
 • Hypernyms:
 inhale, inspire, breathe in
 • Verb Frames:
 - Somebody ----s something
 
 snuff colored;
 of a greyish to yellowish brown
 • Syn:
 snuff-brown, mummy-brown, chukker-brown
 • Similar to:
 chromatic
 
 
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