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present participle and gerund of snuff examples
plural snuffings
The act by which a candle, etc. is snuffed out. examples
The act of one who, or that which, snuffs or makes a low sniffing sound. quotations examples
Then there were frantic snuffings under the doors, and a general agitation.
1879, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Vixen
It was early on the fifteenth day that I heard a curious familiar sequence of sounds in the kitchen, and, listening, identified it as the snuffing and scratching of a dog.
1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 236