snuffer

Etymology

Americanized spelling of German Schnaufer.

name

  1. A surname from German.

noun

  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.”
  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).