snootful
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- IPA: /ˈsnuːtfʊl/
Noun edit
snootful (plural snootfuls)
- (informal) A noseful.
- 1996, Gary Ferguson, The Yellowstone Wolves: The First Year:
- 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...
- 2002, S. Wishnevsky, Quetzalsong, page 124:
- 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.
- 2009, Steve Berman, So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction, page 229:
- Imps see pixies as uppity, giggly snobs, sniffing too many snootfuls of pollen.
- (informal) A significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage.
- 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 13, in Right Ho, Jeeves:
- 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.
- 1963 November 1, “Cartoonists: E's Luv'ly”, in Time:
- His bulbous nose glows whenever he has a snootful, which is nearly every night.
- 1987 May 22, John Gross, "Books of the Times" (review of The Paris Edition by Waverley Root), New York Times (retrieved 1 Nov 2011):
- [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."
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noseful
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significant amount of ingested alcohol
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