Etymograph

English

snuffish

From snuff + -ish.

Formed from snuff + -ish

Middle Dutch snuffen ‘to snuff, sniff, snuffle’

English snuff

Today it means

adj Resembling or characteristic of snuff; snuffy.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “snuffish”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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