Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Finely ground or pulverized tobacco (or other plant derivative) intended for use by being sniffed or snorted into the nose. · Fine-ground or minced tobacco, dry or moistened, intended for use by placing a pinch behind the lip or beneath the tongue. · A snort or sniff of fine-ground, powdered, or pulverized tobacco. · The act of briskly inhaling by the nose; a sniff, a snort.
To inhale through the nose. · To turn up the nose and inhale air, as an expression of contempt; hence, to take offense. · To drug (a person) with a mixture of snuff and beer.
Late Middle English, from Middle Dutch snuffen (“to snuff, sniff, snuffle”). 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”)).
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