different between sniffling vs snuff

English

Verb

sniffling

1. present participle of sniffle

Noun

sniffling (plural snifflings)

1. A sniffle sound or action.

   We heard snifflings and a cough from behind the hedge.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: sn?f, IPA^(key): /sn?f/
• Rhymes: -?f

Etymology 1

From Dutch snuffen (“to snuff, sniff”), related to Dutch snuiven (“to sniff”), Middle Low German snûve (“pose, head-cold”), German Schnupfen (“head-cold”). The noun is probably from Dutch snuf (“snuff”), an abbreviation of snuftabak, snuiftabak (“snuff”). Related to sniff (compare Dutch snuffen (“snuff”), German schnupf (“snuff”), French schnouff (“junk”)).

Noun

snuff (countable and uncountable, plural snuffs)

1. Finely ground or pulverized tobacco intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose.
2. 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:

     Dry snuffs are often adulterated with quicklime, and moist snuffs, as rappee, with ammonia, hellebore, pearl-ash, etc.

   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, University of Illinois Press, 1978, Chapter 5, p. 76,^[1]

     […] most of the women dipped snuff and of course had a spit-cup in the house.

3. A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco.
4. The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
5. Resentment or skepticism expressed by quickly drawing air through the nose; snuffling; sniffling.
6. (obsolete) Snot, mucus.
7. (obsolete) Smell, scent, odour.

Derived terms

• up to snuff

Translations

Verb

snuff (third-person singular simple present snuffs, present participle snuffing, simple past and past participle snuffed)

1. To inhale through the nose.

   • He snuffs the wind, his heels the sand excite.

   • Napoleon paced to and fro in silence, occasionally snuffing at the ground.

2. To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offence.
   • January 29, 1625, Joseph Hall, Public thanksgiving for the wonderful mitigation of the late morality

     Do the enemies of the church rage and snuff?

Etymology 2

From Middle English snoffe, snuffe, of uncertain origin. Compare Middle Dutch snuf, snof (“snuff”), Dutch sneuvelen (“to die in battle”).

Noun

snuff (countable and uncountable, plural snuffs)

1. The burning part of a candle wick, or the black, burnt remains of a wick (which must be periodically removed).
   • 1731, Jonathan Swift, Directions to Servants

     If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.

2. (obsolete) Leavings in a glass after drinking; heeltaps.
3. (slang) A murder.
4. (attributive) A form of pornographic film which involves someone actually being murdered.

Derived terms

• snuff-dish
• snuff film
• snuff movie
• snuffter

Etymology 3

From Middle English snuffen, snoffen, from the noun (see Etymology 2 above).

Verb

snuff (third-person singular simple present snuffs, present participle snuffing, simple past and past participle snuffed)

2. To extinguish a candle or oil-lamp flame by covering the burning end of the wick until the flame is suffocated.
3. (obsolete) To trim the burnt part of a candle wick.
   • 1817, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, [2]:

     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.

4. (slang) To kill a person; to snuff out.

Derived terms

• snuffer
• snuff it
• snuff out

Translations

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /es?naf/, [ez?naf]

Noun

snuff m (plural snuffs)

1. snuff film