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S vs Snoof - What's the difference?

s | snoof |

As a letter s

is the letter s with a.

As an adjective snoof is

having lost the sense of smell.

s

Translingual

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Letter

  • The nineteenth letter of the .

    • Symbol

    (wikipedia) (mul-symbol)
  • voiceless alveolar fricative
  • Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.

    • See also

    (Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=··· , Character=S , Braille=? }} Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur Symbols for SI units ----

    snoof

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having lost the sense of smell.
  • * 1955. John Galsworthy. A Modern Comedy. C. Scribner's sons, p. 799:
    • Luckily, they're all `snoof.`'''" "What?" said Michael ... One says 'deaf,' 'blind,' 'dumb'—why not '''`snoof` ?"
  • * 1966. By Monroe C. Beardsley. Thinking Straight; Principles of Reasoning for Readers and Writers. By Monroe C. Beardsley. Prentice-Hall, p. 292:
    • And the word "snoof " has been brought forth (by an analogy with "deaf") to describe someone who is devoid of, or deficient in, the sense of smell.
  • * 1994. Diana Starr Cooper. Night After Night. Island Press, p. 127:
    • My mother-in-law, Louise Field Cooper, used the word snoof''' to convey some of this meaning, as in “he has such a bad cold he's gone totally '''snoof .

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