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Tobacco you sniff instead of smoke, because apparently inhaling smoke wasn't weird enough.
means A pulverized, often scented tobacco that's inhaled through the nose rather than smoked, typically pinched between thumb and finger and sniffed up a nostril.
from Comes from the Dutch 'snuffen,' meaning to sniff or snuff up, related to the Middle Low German root behind English 'sniff' and 'snout.' The habit itself spread through Europe after tobacco arrived from the Americas, and by the 1600s-1700s 'snuff' had narrowed from describing the sniffing action itself to naming the ground tobacco people sniffed — pinches of it carried in ornate boxes, offered at polite gatherings, and blamed for a great many sneezes.
- peak popularity
- 18th century aristocrats, snuffboxes as status symbols
- royal habit
- Queen Charlotte was nicknamed Snuffy Charlotte
- phrase origin
- up to snuff meant sharp, alert, not easily fooled
- modern myth
- snuff films probably never actually existed