snoof

English

Etymology

Created in the 1940s. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Any connection to "deaf"?”)

Adjective

snoof (comparative more snoof, superlative most snoof)

1. (humorous, nonstandard) Having lost the sense of smell.
   • 1946 Una Jeffers To Dorothy Brett. The Collected Letters Of Robinson Jeffers. With Selected Letters Of Una Jeffers. Stanford, Volume 3, p. 410:

     […] it means when a person lacks his sense of smell. I'm glad I'm not snoof.

   • 1955. John Galsworthy. A Modern Comedy. C. Scribner's sons, p. 799:

     Luckily, they're all `snoof.`" "What?" said Michael ... One says 'deaf,' 'blind,' 'dumb'—why not `snoof`?"

   • 1966. By Monroe C. Beardsley. Thinking Straight; Principles of Reasoning for Readers and Writers. By Monroe C. Beardsley. Prentice-Hall, p. 292:

     And the word "snoof" has been brought forth (by an analogy with "deaf") to describe someone who is devoid of, or deficient in, the sense of smell.

   • 1994. Diana Starr Cooper. Night After Night. Island Press, p. 127:

     My mother-in-law, Louise Field Cooper, used the word snoof to convey some of this meaning, as in “he has such a bad cold he's gone totally snoof.

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Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -oːf

Verb

snoof

1. (deprecated template usage) singular past indicative of snuiven