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Sluff
- unknown - variant spelling of slough
To shed, as with a snake skin
Sniff
- noun - inhale audibly through the nose; "the sick student was sniffling in the back row"
- perceive by inhaling through the nose; "sniff the perfume"
- sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
Snoff
- - A short candle end used for igniting a fuse.
Snuff
- adjective - a pinch of smokeless tobacco inhaled at a single time
- finely powdered tobacco for sniffing up the nose
- inhale audibly through the nose; "snuff coke"
- sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
- sniff or smell inquiringly
- snuff colored; of a greyish to yellowish brown
- the charred portion of a candlewick
Spiff
- noun - attractiveness in appearance or dress or manner; "he gets by largely on pure spiff"
Staff
- noun - (music) the system of five horizontal lines on which the musical notes are written
- a rod carried as a symbol
- a strong rod or stick with a specialized utilitarian purpose; "he walked with the help of a wooden staff"
- building material consisting of plaster and hair; used to cover external surfaces of temporary structure (as at an exposition) or for decoration
- personnel who assist their superior in carrying out an assigned task; "the hospital has an excellent nursing staff"; "the general relied on his staff to make routine decisions"
- provide with staff; "This position is not always staffed"
- serve on the staff of; "The two men staff the reception desk"
- the body of teachers and administrators at a school; "the dean addressed the letter to the entire staff of the university"
Stiff
- adjective - an ordinary man; "a lucky stiff"; "a working stiff"
- extremely; "bored stiff"; "frightened stiff"
- having a strong physiological or chemical effect; "a potent toxin"; "potent liquor"; "a potent cup of tea", "a stiff drink"
- in a stiff manner; "his hands lay stiffly"
- incapable of or resistant to bending;
- marked by firm determination or resolution; not shakable; "firm convictions"; "a firm mouth"; "steadfast resolve"; "a man of unbendable perseverence"; "unwavering loyalty"
- not moving or operating freely; "a stiff hinge"
- powerful; "a stiff current"; "a stiff breeze"
- Rigid
- rigidly formal; "a starchy manner"; "the letter was stiff and formal"; "his prose has a buckram quality"
- the dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless th
Stuff
- noun - a critically important or characteristic component; "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
- cram into a cavity; "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
- fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with feathers"
- fill with a stuffing while cooking; "Have you stuffed the turkey yet?"
- informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all your clobber?"
- information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff I had heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
- miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of stuff"
- obstruct; "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
- overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
- press or force; "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
- senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff"
- the tangible substance that goes into the mak
Whiff
- noun - a lefteye flounder found in coastal waters from New England to Brazil
- a short light gust of air
- a strikeout resulting from the batter swinging at and missing the ball for the third strike
- drive or carry as if by a puff of air; "The gust of air whiffed away the clouds"
- perceive by inhaling through the nose; "sniff the perfume"
- smoke and exhale strongly; "puff a cigar"; "whiff a pipe"
- strike out by swinging and missing the pitch charged as the third
- utter with a puff of air; "whiff out a prayer"
Wolff
- noun - German anatomist (1733-1794)