Snuffy

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

The postchaise contained a snuffy old dowager of seventy, with a maid, her contemporary.

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.

Giving that up, she took a broom and a duster and went upstairs to housemaid Mrs Dibble's bedroom, with her head tied up in a coloured scarf. It was a dusty, snuffy job, for penuriousness in Mrs Dibble refused to throw anything away, including dirt, and if anything fell on the floor it remained there.