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snuffy

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snuffy [ˈsnʌfɪ]
adj snuffier, snuffiest
1. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) of, relating to, or resembling snuff
2. (Miscellaneous Technologies / Brewing) covered with or smelling of snuff
3. unpleasant; disagreeable
snuffiness  n


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That was attended to by a snuffy and mop-headed, inconceivably dirty, and weirdly toothless Dutch ship-keeper, who could hardly speak three words of English, but who must have had some considerable knowledge of the language, since he managed invariably to interpret in the contrary sense everything that was said to him.
One was of snuffy colored gingham which Marilla had been tempted to buy from a peddler the preceding summer because it looked so serviceable; one was of black-and-white checkered sateen which she had picked up at a bargain counter in the winter; and one was a stiff print of an ugly blue shade which she had purchased that week at a Carmody store.
You would not have a young lady use her pocket-handkerchief like a snuffy old nurse, Clara?
 
 
 
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