Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who uses snuff.
- n. A candlesnuffer.
- n. One who snuffs out candles.
- n. An instrument resembling a pair of shears that is used for cutting the snuff from or for extinguishing candles.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who snuffs.
- n. A snuffing-pig or porpoise.
- n. plural An instrument for cropping the snuff of a candle, usually fitted with a close box to receive the burnt snuff and retain the smoke and smell. Also called pair of snuffers.
- n. Same as snuff-dish, 2.
Wiktionary
- n. A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle (candlesnuffer).
- n. A person who uses snuff.
- n. The common porpoise.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who snuffs.
- n. (Zoöl.) The common porpoise.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a cone-shaped implement with a handle; for extinguishing candles
- n. a person who uses snuff
- n. a person who snuffs out candles
Etymologies
- snuff + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There they prove that we are coals enclosed on all sides under a vast snuffer, which is the sky.”
“The need of some convenient tray or receptacle for the snuffers, not always over-clean when they had been used a few times, was met at first by what are known as snuffer stands made of wrought metal, and often very ornamental.”
“Mike Sudal/The Wall Street Journal Disposable long-reach butane lighters • Disposable long-reach butane lighters—perfect for candles and fireplaces—and a long-handled brass candle snuffer to extinguish flames.”
“Their consumption was limited, though: their candlesticks and candle snuffer were copper, not silver.”
Belongings: Property, Family, and Identity in Colonial South Africa
“The moxa stick with its tinfoil snuffer sat in a puddle of water, the smell of wet ash in the room.”
“Folding the tinfoil into a long rectangle, he rolled the stick of moxa inside it to make a “snuffer.””
“Coincidentally, most of the scenes used in Carol's marketing are from this last group, like when Scrooge zooms across England with the Ghost of Christmas Past, rockets into the sky on a giant candle snuffer, or snowboards on an icicle.”
Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Disney's A Christmas Carol (3D) -- Don't Get Scrooged
“It was eerie inside the now-empty church; only a cleric remained, extinguishing the candles with a long silver snuffer.”
“Ebenezer Scrooge extinguishes the Ghost of Christmas Past with his snuffer and was shot up like a firework.”
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“He had watched someone putting out a candle with a candle snuffer and what he did, was create an enormous version of it, to put out the fires.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snuffer’.
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The Chandlery
Candles, candle-making; photometry, and a couple of oily fish used as light sources.
candle, chandlery, chandry, candle-carriage, candela, candle-power, egg-candling, wax, tallow, paraffin, taper, cerge and 135 more...
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My Little Phonies
Names for the next generation of My Little Ponies. Inspired by Star's list.
juggernaught, flamboyant, cuddly maggot, astrobleme, agroof, windburn, poshlost, crucifer, feedbag, dunderwhelp, nebelwerfer, bliss ninny and 453 more...
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Cetaceans
grampus, whale, porpoise, dolphin, cachalot, minke, narwhal, rorqual, orca, humpback, beluga, kogia and 49 more...
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ruzuzu "An instrument for cropping the snuff of a candle, usually fitted with a close box to receive the burnt snuff and retain the smoke and smell. Also called pair of snuffers." --CD&C
Apr 19, 2012