snuffer

English

Etymology

snuff +‎ -er

Noun

snuffer (plural snuffers)

A device made to extinguish (snuff out) a candle.
- Jonathan Swift
  If the burning snuff happens to get out of the snuffers, you have a chance that it may fall into a dish of soup.
A person who uses snuff (the tobacco product).
The common porpoise.
The participant in a snuff film who kills another (the snuffee).

Synonyms

(device to extinguish candle): candle snuffer

Translations

candle snuffer — see candle snuffer

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