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snootful en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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• /ˈsnuːtfʊl/ (US)

Etymology

From snoot + -ful.

Meanings

1. (informal) A noseful.
   • It took almost to noon, and quite a bit of slow, careful rolling, and more than a few snootfuls of seawater, but finally he was free. 2002, S. Wishnevsky, Quetzalsong, page 124:
   • Imps see pixies as uppity, giggly snobs, sniffing too many snootfuls of pollen. 2009, Steve Berman, So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction, page 229:
   • Suddenly the Soda Butte animals are getting great snootfuls of scent laid down over the past month by other wolves, which apparently leaves them with a certain longing for their own quiet, unsullied digs far to the northeast... 1996, Gary Ferguson, The Yellowstone Wolves: The First Year:
2. (informal) A significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage.
   • [H]e recalls most of his colleagues and their rough-and-tumble exploits. Spencer Bull, for instance, who was a good reporter with one weakness . . . "He lost the ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy when he had a snootful." 1987 May 22, John Gross, "Books of the Times" (review of The Paris Edition by Waverley Root), New York Times (retrieved 1 Nov 2011)
   • His bulbous nose glows whenever he has a snootful, which is nearly every night. 1963 November 1, “Cartoonists: E's Luv'ly”, in Time:
   • Only active measures, promptly applied, can provide this poor, pusillanimous poop with the proper pep. And that is why, Jeeves, I intend tomorrow to secure a bottle of gin and lace his luncheon orange juice with it liberally. . . . The truth of the matter being that he is just a plain, ordinary poop and needs a snootful as badly as ever man did. 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 13, in Right Ho, Jeeves:

Forms

Deriveds

have a snootful

Translations (4)

de sternhagelvoll (significant amount of ingested alcohol) · fi nenän täydeltä (noseful) · fi kunnon hörppy (significant amount of ingested alcohol) · fi nenällinen (noseful)