different between noseful vs snootful

English

nose +? -ful

noseful (plural nosefuls)

snoot +? -ful

snootful (plural snootfuls)

(informal) A noseful.
- 1996, Gary Ferguson, The Yellowstone Wolves: The First Year :
  Suddenly the Soda Butte animals are getting great snootfuls of scent laid down over the past month by other wolves, which apparently leaves them with a certain longing for their own quiet, unsullied digs far to the northeast...
(informal) A significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage.
- 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves, ch. 13:
  Only active measures, promptly applied, can provide this poor, pusillanimous poop with the proper pep. And that is why, Jeeves, I intend tomorrow to secure a bottle of gin and lace his luncheon orange juice with it liberally. . . . The truth of the matter being that he is just a plain, ordinary poop and needs a snootful as badly as ever man did.
- 1963 Nov. 1, "Cartoonists: E's Luv'ly," Time:
  His bulbous nose glows whenever he has a snootful, which is nearly every night.
- 1987 May 22, John Gross, "Books of the Times" (review of The Paris Edition by Waverley Root), New York Times (retrieved 1 Nov 2011):
  [H]e recalls most of his colleagues and their rough-and-tumble exploits. Spencer Bull, for instance, who was a good reporter with one weakness . . . "He lost the ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy when he had a snootful."

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