"snoof" meaning in English

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        "To sniff around, usually in the search for food."
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          "text": "Luckily, they're all ‘snoof’.\"\n\"What?\" said Michael […].\n\"It's a portmanteau syllable for 'Got no sense of smell to speak of.' And wanted, too. One says 'deaf,' 'blind,' 'dumb'—why not ‘snoof’?\"",
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          "text": "[…] it means when a person lacks his sense of smell. I'm glad I'm not snoof."
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