snootful

Definitions

1. A noseful.
   informal
2. A significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage.
   informal

Equivalents

Examples

“Suddenly the Soda Butte animals are getting great snootfuls of scent laid down over the past month by other wolves, which apparently leaves them with a certain longing for their own⟳ quiet, unsullied digs far to the northeast...”

“It took almost to noon, and quite a bit of slow, careful rolling, and more than a few snootfuls of seawater, but finally he was free.”

“Imps see⟳ pixies as uppity, giggly snobs, sniffing too many snootfuls of pollen.”

“Only active measures, promptly applied, can provide⟳ this poor, pusillanimous poop with the proper pep. And that is why, Jeeves, I intend⟳ tomorrow to secure a bottle of gin and lace his luncheon orange juice with it liberally. . . . The truth of the matter⟳ being that he is just a plain, ordinary poop and needs a snootful as badly as ever man did.”

“His bulbous nose glows whenever he has a snootful, which is nearly every night.”

“[H]e recalls most of his colleagues and their rough-and-tumble exploits. Spencer Bull, for instance, who was a good reporter with one weakness . . . "He lost the ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy when he had a snootful."”

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