snuffy

English edit

snuff +‎ -y

snuffy (comparative snuffier, superlative snuffiest)

Soiled with snuff.
Resembling or characteristic of snuff.
(obsolete, Scotland) Sulky; angry; vexed.
- May 27 1680, Marchioness de Sévigné, letter to her daughter, published in English in 1745
  I must now let you know what sort of a personage this same First President is; you imagine that he is a disagreeable snuffy old fellow
- 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
  The postchaise contained a snuffy old dowager of seventy, with a maid, her contemporary.
(slang) Drunk.
- 2014, Howard Frank Mosher, North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland:
  She could fight, too, when I got snuffy. […] Once I come home from elk camp so drunk I couldn't hardly sit my horse, and Sylvie near to kilt me, she fought me so hard.