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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