Noseful vs Snootful - What's the difference?
noseful | snootful |
As much (of a scent etc.) as can be taken into one's nose; a sniff.
* 2002 , Kate Grenville, Joan makes history
(informal) A noseful.
* 1996 , Gary Ferguson, The Yellowstone Wolves: The First Year :
* 2002 , S. Wishnevsky, Quetzalsong , page 124:
* 2009 , Steve Berman, So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction , page 229:
(informal) A significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage.
* 1922 , , Right Ho, Jeeves , ch. 13:
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As nouns the difference between noseful and snootful
is that noseful is as much (of a scent etc.) as can be taken into one's nose; a sniff while snootful is a noseful.noseful
English
Noun
(en noun)- At last he did what I wanted: I stood so close I could snuff up nosefuls of his musty smell, and he snipped the curls from my head one by one.
Anagrams
*snootful
English
Noun
(en noun)- Suddenly the Soda Butte animals are getting great snootfuls of scent laid down over the past month by other wolves, which apparently leaves them with a certain longing for their own quiet, unsullied digs far to the northeast...
- It took almost to noon, and quite a bit of slow, careful rolling, and more than a few snootfuls of seawater, but finally he was free.
- Imps see pixies as uppity, giggly snobs, sniffing too many snootfuls of pollen.
- Only active measures, promptly applied, can provide this poor, pusillanimous poop with the proper pep. And that is why, Jeeves, I intend tomorrow to secure a bottle of gin and lace his luncheon orange juice with it liberally. . . . The truth of the matter being that he is just a plain, ordinary poop and needs a snootful as badly as ever man did.
Cartoonists: E's Luv'ly," Time :
- His bulbous nose glows whenever he has a snootful , which is nearly every night.
Books of the Times" (review of The Paris Edition'' by Waverley Root), ''New York Times (retrieved 1 Nov 2011):
- [H]e recalls most of his colleagues and their rough-and-tumble exploits. Spencer Bull, for instance, who was a good reporter with one weakness . . . "He lost the ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy when he had a snootful ."