snuffiest

“He was rewarded by seeing Maggie let her work fall, and gradually get so absorbed in his wonderful geological story that she sat looking at him, leaning forward with crossed arms, and with an entire absence of self-consciousness, as if he had been the snuffiest of old professors, and she a downy-lipped alumna.”

II. First Impressions. Book VI—The Great Temptation

“Major were sartorial rivals, unless they had quarrelled over the question as to which of them wore the snuffiest old clothes.”

Miss Mapp