snuff

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

snuff [snuff snuffs snuffed snuffing] verb, noun BrE [snʌf] NAmE [snʌf]
verb
1. transitive ~ sth (out) to stop a small flame from burning, especially by pressing it between your fingers or covering it with sth
Syn: ↑extinguish
2. intransitive, transitive ~ (sth) (of an animal)to smell sth by breathing in noisily through the nose
•The dogs were snuffing gently at my feet.
Verb forms:

Word Origin:
v. sense 1 and late Middle English n. and v. sense 2 late Middle English Middle Dutch snuffen ‘to snuffle’ Dutch snuftabak
Idioms: ↑snuff it ▪ ↑up to snuff
Derived: ↑snuff something out
 
noun uncountable
↑tobacco in the form of a powder that people take by breathing it into their noses

Word Origin:
v. sense 1 and late Middle English n. and v. sense 2 late Middle English Middle Dutch snuffen ‘to snuffle’ Dutch snuftabak
 
See also: ↑up to the mark

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  snuff-brown, mummy-brown, chukker-brown, sniff, snuffle