Snoff vs Snoof - What's the difference?
snoff | snoof |
Having lost the sense of smell.
* 1955. John Galsworthy. A Modern Comedy. C. Scribner's sons, p. 799:
* 1966. By Monroe C. Beardsley. Thinking Straight; Principles of Reasoning for Readers and Writers. By Monroe C. Beardsley. Prentice-Hall, p. 292:
* 1994. Diana Starr Cooper. Night After Night. Island Press, p. 127:
As a noun snoff
is (mining) a short candle end used for igniting a fuse.As an adjective snoof is
having lost the sense of smell.snoff
English
snoof
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Luckily, they're all `snoof.`'''" "What?" said Michael ... One says 'deaf,' 'blind,' 'dumb'—why not '''`snoof` ?"
- 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.
- 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 .