Spiffingly vs Sniffingly - What's the difference?
spiffingly | sniffingly |
With a sniffing sound or action.
* 1997 , Philip Ashton Rollins, The Cowboy (page 191)
With haughty disapproval.
* 2004 , Edward Robb Ellis, The Epic Of New York City: A Narrative History (page 232)
* 2007 , Christopher Morley, Where the Blue Begins (page 27)
As adverbs the difference between spiffingly and sniffingly
is that spiffingly is in a spiffing manner; wonderfully, marvellously while sniffingly is with a sniffing sound or action.spiffingly
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sniffingly
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Adverb
(en adverb)- All during the night the riding ponies had grazed in close proximity to the house, had stamped about it, and occasionally had put their noses to its cracks, sniffingly to satisfy either curiosity or a desire for human companionship.
- Philip Hone sniffingly noted in his diary that "they increase our taxes, eat our bread and encumber our streets, and not one in twenty is competent to keep himself."
- Mrs. Chow down the street, for instance, why did she look so sniffingly upon him when she heard the children, in the harmless uproar of their play, cry him aloud as Daddy?
