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snuffy

/snuhf-ee/US // ˈsnʌf i //UK // (ˈsnʌfɪ) //

鼻涕虫,鼻涕,流鼻涕,鼻烟壶

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    snuff·i·er, snuff·i·est.

    • : resembling snuff.
    • : soiled with snuff.
    • : given to the use of snuff.
    • : having an unpleasant appearance.
    • : having hurt feelings.
    • : easily displeased.

Examples

  • Another snuffy figure with a stoop and a bald head and a pen came through a curtain.

  • As for Halyard, he was unspeakable, bundled up in his snuffy shawls, and making uncouth noises over his gruel.

  • One indulges him with the hero of the piece: the small, ugly, irate, snuffy quadruped before mentioned.

  • He was in his shirtsleeves—a respectable, snuffy old figure; evidently a man deliberate in words and thoughts and actions.

  • Dame Bond, with her unsteady steps and her snuffy black gown, would have been preferable of the two.