[f. SNUFF v.2]
1. One who snuffs, or who sniffs disdainfully.
a. 1610. Babington, Wks. (1622), 102. Let all snuffers and brow-beaters of honest men consider this.
1648. Hexham, II. Een Snuyver, a Snuffer.
† 2. slang or dial. In pl. The nostrils. Obs.
a. 1658. Cleveland, Sing-song, xxvi. Sybill so sweet, Whose Cheeks on each side of her Snuffers did meet, As round and as plump as a Codlin.
1703. Thoresby, Lett. to Ray (E. D. S.), Snuffers, for the nose, or nostrils.
3. One who takes snuff.
1889. Gretton, Memory’s Harkback, 99. I knew an elderly gentleman who was a great snuffer.
1903. R. Lawson, in R. Wallace, Life & Last Leaves, 628. He was an inveterate snuffer.
4. U.S. local. A porpoise.
1884. Goode, Nat. Hist. Aquat. Anim., 14. On the Atlantic coast occurs most abundantly the little Harbor Porpoise, Phocæna brachycion Cope, known to the fishermen as ‘Puffer,’ ‘Snuffer,’ ‘Snuffing Pig.’
