snuffer

See also: Snuffer

English

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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