Obs. Forms: 5 snwf-, 5–7 snuf-, 6 snof-, 6–7 snuft-, 7 snuff(e)kin; also 5–6 -kyn. [Of obscure origin.] A muff.
1483. Cath. Angl., 347/2. A Snufkyn [v.r. Snwfkyn], pellicudia, nebrida.
1598. Florio, Manicone, a great sleeue, manchon, muffe or snufkin.
1599–1600. in Nichols, Progr. Q. Eliz. (1805), III. 135. One snofkyn of crymson satten.
1602. Entert. Harefield, in Lyly’s Wks. 1902, I. 500. ’Tis sommer, yet a snuffkin to your lott, But t’will be winter one day, doubte you nott.
1611. Cotgr., Bonne grace,… a snufkin, or Muffe.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, IV. lii. (1737), 214. The Crepines of their Hoods, their Ruffles, Snuffekins, and Neck-Ruffs, new wash’d, starch’d, and iron’d.
