A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1572, 1653
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Snuff(e, v. [e.m.E. snuff (1527), MDu. snoffen, snuffen.] a. To draw up (at the nose), inhale (a smell). b. To clear (the nose) by an energetic inhalation. —a. 1572 Buch. Detect. (1727) 69.
The savour of the gune-powder, ȝe in maner snuffit up at ȝour nose —b. 1653 Urquhart Rabelais i xx.
Master Janotus with his adherents vowed never to blow or snuffe their noses until judgement were given
