Snuffs vs Sluffs - What's the difference?
snuffs | sluffs |
(snuff)
Finely]] [[grind, ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue; see also snus.
* 1896 , Universal Dictionary of the English Language :
A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
(obsolete) Snot, mucus.
(obsolete) Smell, scent, odour.
To inhale through the nose.
* Dryden
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To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
* Bishop Hall
The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which has to be periodically removed).
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* Jonathan Swift
(obsolete) Leavings in a glass after drinking; heel-taps.
(attributive) Pertaining to a form of pornographic film which involves someone's actually being murdered.
To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
(obsolete) To trim the burnt part of a candle wick.
* 1817 , , Northanger Abbey , [http://books.google.com/books?id=9QQ9AAAAYAAJ&dq=%22snuffed%20and%20extinguished%20in%20one%22&pg=PA205#v=onepage&q=snuffed&f=false]:
(slang) To kill a person; to snuff out.
(sluff)
(skin shed by a snake or other reptile).
(dead skin on a sore or ulcer).
An avalanche, mudslide, or a like slumping of material or debris.
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* {{quote-web, date=2002-03-02, author=Sid Perkins, title=Avalanche! Scientists are digging out the secrets of lethal flows of snow., site=The Free Library, url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Avalanche!+Scientists+are+digging+out+the+secrets+of+lethal+flows+of+...-a084054171,
, passage=At least for small sluffs like the ones Brown and his colleagues have triggered, the avalanche slides like a block of material instead of flowing like a fluid.}}
(to shed or to slide off).
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ignore, shrug (off)
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(discard).
* {{quote-news, year=2009, date=February 16, author=Phillip Alder, title=At a Florida Game, an Unusual Double Squeeze, work=New York Times
, passage=If either played another club, declarer would ruff on the board and sluff his diamond queen.}}
to avoid working
As verbs the difference between snuffs and sluffs
is that snuffs is (snuff) while sluffs is (sluff).snuffs
English
Verb
(head)snuff
English
Etymology 1
Related to .Noun
- Dry snuffs' are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist ' snuffs , as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.
Derived terms
* up to snuffVerb
(en verb)- He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite.
- Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground.
- Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff ?
Etymology 2
Origin uncertain.Noun
(-)- his memory stinks like the snuff of a candle when it is put out […].
- If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.
Derived terms
* snuff-dish * snuff film * snuff movie * snuffterVerb
(en verb)- The dimness of the light her candle emitted made her turn to it in alarm; but there was no danger of its sudden extinction, it had yet some hours to burn; and that she might not have any greater difficulty in distinguishing the writing than what its ancient date might occasion, she hastily snuffed' it. Alas! it was ' snuffed and extinguished in one.
Derived terms
* snuffer * snuff it * snuff outsluffs
English
Verb
(head)sluff
English
Alternative forms
* sloughNoun
(en noun)- That is the sluff of a rattler; we must be careful.
- This is the sluff that came off of his skin after the burn.
Verb
(en verb)citation
- He's sluffing off somewhere.
