snootful

plural snootfuls

1. informalA noseful.

   Imps see pixies as uppity, giggly snobs, sniffing too many snootfuls of pollen.

   2009, Steve Berman, So Fey: Queer Fairy Fiction, page 229

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   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...

   1996, Gary Ferguson, The Yellowstone Wolves: The First Year

   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.

   2002, S. Wishnevsky, Quetzalsong, page 124

2. informalA significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage.

   His bulbous nose glows whenever he has a snootful, which is nearly every night.

   1963 November 1, “Cartoonists: E's Luv'ly”, in Time

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   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.

   1922, P. G. Wodehouse, chapter 13, in Right Ho, Jeeves

   [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."

   1987 May 22, John Gross, "Books of the Times" (review of The Paris Edition by Waverley Root), New York Times (retrieved 1 Nov 2011)