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Snuffer

name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from German.
Noun
  1. 1
    A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.

    "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. 2
    a cone-shaped implement with a handle; for extinguishing candles wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who uses snuff (the tobacco product).
  4. 4
    a person who uses snuff wordnet
  5. 5
    The common porpoise.
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  1. 6
    a person who snuffs out candles wordnet
  2. 7
    The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).

Etymology

Etymology 1

From snuff + -er.

Etymology 2

Americanized spelling of German Schnaufer.

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