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English
Etymology
From snuff + -y.
Pronunciation
Adjective
snuffy (comparative snuffier, superlative snuffiest)
- Soiled with snuff.
- Resembling or characteristic of snuff.
- (obsolete, Scotland) Sulky; angry; vexed.
- May 27 1680, Marchioness de Sévigné, letter to her daughter, published in English in 1745
I must now let you know what sort of a personage this same First President is; you imagine that he is a disagreeable snuffy old fellow
1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. , volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, , published 1849–1850, →OCLC:The postchaise contained a snuffy old dowager of seventy, with a maid, her contemporary.
- (slang) Drunk.
2014, Howard Frank Mosher, North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland:She could fight, too, when I got snuffy. […] Once I come home from elk camp so drunk I couldn't hardly sit my horse, and Sylvie near to kilt me, she fought me so hard.
Derived terms
References
- (drunk): 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary