"snuffy" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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      "glosses": [
        "Soiled with snuff."
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          "text": "The postchaise contained a snuffy old dowager of seventy, with a maid, her contemporary.",
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        "Sulky; angry; vexed."
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        "(obsolete, Scotland) Sulky; angry; vexed."
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          "ref": "2014, Howard Frank Mosher, North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland:",
          "text": "She could fight, too, when I got snuffy. […] Once I come home from elk camp so drunk I couldn't hardly sit my horse, and Sylvie near to kilt me, she fought me so hard.",
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        "Drunk."
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang) Drunk."
      ],
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        "Drunk."
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        "(slang) Drunk."
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