snuffer
See also: Snuffer
English
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Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]snuffer (plural snuffers)
- 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.
- A person who uses snuff (the tobacco product).
- The common porpoise.
- The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).
Synonyms
[edit]- (device to extinguish candle): candle snuffer
Translations
[edit]candle snuffer — see candle snuffer