snuffer

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noun

A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.

Similar
candle snuffersnuff user
OriginGerman Schnaufer →
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Meanings

snuffer1

nounsnuffer (plural snuffers)

plural snuffers

  1. A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.

    If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.

    1731 (date written; published 1745), [Jonathan] Swift, Directions to Servants […], London: […] R[obert] Dodsley, […], and M. Cooper, […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: candle snuffer

  2. A person who uses snuff (the tobacco product).
  3. The common porpoise.
  4. The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).

Snuffer2

proper nounSnuffer (plural Snuffers)

plural Snuffers

  1. A surname from German.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounA device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.

Similar
candle snuffer

More synonyms by meaning

nouna person who uses snuff

Similar
snuff user
Broader
consumer
Also see
candle snufferdoutersnuffers

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

snuffer · noun

From snuff + -er.

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Snuffer · proper noun

  1. GermanSchnaufer
  2. EnglishSnuffer

Americanized spelling of German Schnaufer.

More words from German

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Suffern
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APA

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MLA

“snuffer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snuffer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “snuffer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/snuffer.

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