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: 1657-1695
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Snuffin(g, vbl. n.1 Also: snuf(e)ing. [e.m.E. snuffynge (1540), snuffing (1573); Snuff(e v.] a. The action of the verb in fig. usage: Feeling or displaying disdain, contempt or disregard at (a person or thing). b. attrib., in lit. usage, with case (Case n.2) a case for candle-snuffers (Snuffer n.); dish, pan (Pan n.1, cf. 2 b, prob., in fact, another instance of this sense) a receptacle used to hold the snuff of candles or lamps or the snuffers when not in use. —a. a1658 Durham Commandments (1675) 65.
Mocking, or secretly snuffing at any who goeth … about it with more tenderness than we 1685-8 Renwick Serm. 371.
Therefrom is a weariness procured, and a snuffing at the ordinances —b. 1673 Leith Customs 64.
4 dozen snufing pans 1685 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries LVIII 363.
12 brass candelsticks. 2 brass sockets. A brass snuffin dish 1695 Edinburgh Testaments LXXX 134b.
Ane pair of brase casin candelsticks with snufeing dish and snufferes iiij li. iiij s. 1695 Edinburgh Testaments LXXX 136.
Snuffers and snufeing dish … ane other snufeing caise and snufferes
