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▪ I. snuffy, a.1|ˈsnʌfɪ|
[f. snuff v.2 or snuff n.1 4.]
1. Annoyed, displeased; ready to take offence.
1678A. Behn Sir Patient Fancy iv. i, She left me in the very middle on't so snuffy I'll warrant. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Captious, Touchy, Snuffy. 1825Jamieson Suppl., Snuffie, sulky, displeased; often Snuffie-like, Clydes[dale]. 1845S. Judd Margaret i. xiii, Don't be snuffy, Molly, none of your mulligrubs.
2. Of cattle or horses: excitable, spirited, wild.
1955R. Hobson Nothing too Good xviii. 186 Any ball⁓up or milling around business up in front of the mile-and-a-half line of snuffy range beef could easily cause the critters to split into the spruce. 1964Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads 131 I'll yard them snuffy cattle in a way that's safe to swear. 1973R. Symons Where Wagon Led vi. xix. 290 When he worked, he worked. Otherwise he played, mostly at breaking-in the snuffy ones.
▪ II. snuffy, a.2|ˈsnʌfɪ|
[f. snuff n.3
Bailey (1727, vol. II) gives ‘Snuffy,..dawbed with Snuff’, an earlier instance of either 2 a or 2 b.]
1. Like, or resembling, snuff or powdered tobacco in colour or substance.
1789T. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 285 A brownish ferruginous soft soil, of a snuffy appearance. 1860Sala Baddington Peerage i, They were mostly bright yellow, or of that peculiar shade of green known as ‘snuffy’. 1872Coues N. Amer. Birds 290 Head snuffy-brown, and no white patch in front of the eye. 1884Harper's Mag. Mar. 522/2 A black or snuffy dust.
2. a. Of persons: Given to taking snuff; bearing marks of the habit of snuff-taking.
c1790A. Wilson Watty & Meg Poet. Wks. (c 1846) 151 Nasty, gude-for-naething being! O ye snuffy, drucken sow! 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iii. vii. 118 A little odd-looking snuffy old man, with a brown scratch wig. 1848Thackeray Trav. Lond. Wks. 1886 XXIV. 349 Dinners where you meet..a Knight, and a snuffy little old General. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere 309 Two well-known English antiquarians—very learned, very jealous, and very snuffy.
b. Of things: Soiled with snuff. Also fig.
1765Sterne Tr. Shandy VIII. 51 A plan..upon the lower corner of which..there is still remaining the marks of a snuffy finger and thumb. 1840Thackeray Shabby-genteel Story i, A snuffy shirt⁓frill, and enormous breast-pin. a1846B. R. Haydon Autobiogr. (1927) iii. xiii. 229 Brighton gay, gambling, dissipated..Dieppe dark, old, snuffy and picturesque. 1856Ld. Cockburn Mem. i. (1874) 46 His old snuffy black clothes,..and his thread⁓bare blue great-coat. 1885Harper's Mag. Mar. 563/2 [She] pulled out a snuffy pocket-handkerchief. 1925E. Sitwell Troy Park 67 Trees periwigged and snuffy.
3. ‘Tipsy, drunk’ (Slang Dict. 1864).
1823‘J. Bee’ Slang 162 Snuffy—drunk, with a nasal delivery. Snuffy—drunk in the feminine application, and applied but seldom to puling fellows. 1891Newcastle Even. Chron. 30 Jan. 4/6 He considered, if a member got ‘snuffy’, he should go home, and not come there to annoy the meeting. |