snuffer

snuffer

See also: Snuffer

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Etymology

    From snuff + -er.

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    Noun

    snuffer (plural snuffers)

    1. A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.
      • 1731 (date written; published 1745), [Jonathan] Swift, Directions to Servants [], London: [] R[obert] Dodsley, [], and M. Cooper, [], →OCLC:
        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. A person who uses snuff (the tobacco product).
    3. The common porpoise.
    4. The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).

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