snoof

present singular third person snoofs · participle present snoofing · participle past snoofed · past snoofed

1. To sniff around, usually in the search for food.

comparative more snoof · superlative most snoof

1. humorousnonstandardHaving lost the sense of smell.

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

   1946, Una Jeffers to Dorothy Brett, The Collected Letters Of Robinson Jeffers. With Selected Letters Of Una Jeffers, volume 3, Stanford, p. 410

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   Luckily, they're all ‘snoof’." "What?" said Michael […]. "It's a portmanteau syllable for 'Got no sense of smell to speak of.' And wanted, too. One says 'deaf,' 'blind,' 'dumb'—why not ‘snoof’?"

   1928, John Galsworthy, Swan Song (A Modern Comedy part 3)

   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.

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

   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.

   1994, Diana Starr Cooper, Night After Night, Island Press, page 127