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snoose
[< Mod.Scand. snus, shortening of snustobak(k) snuff]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:schnoose, snoosh, snooze
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a kind of snuff, prepared damp and in grated form, usually chewed; chewing snuff.
See: Copenhagen snoose
Quotations
1912
Loud were the lamentations of the foreigners when his "snooze" gave out, "snooze" being the local familiarity for snuff.
1958
The pioneers with their oxen and their skid roads greased with Whale blubber and their lower lips packed with snoose could hardly be expected to know the tree's very virtues were one of the seeds of its destruction.
1965
[Caption] ". . . just before ya face the old lady ya shove a wad of schnoose in yer mouth . . . she'll never smell yer breath."