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Prominent snuff users included Pope Benedict XIII who repealed the smoking ban set by Pope Urban VIII; Queen Anne; King George III's wife Queen Charlotte, referred to as 'Snuffy Charlotte', who had an entire room at Windsor Castle devoted to her snuff stock; and King George IV, who had his own special blends and hoarded a stockpile of snuff.
Aloysius Snuffleupagus (/ ˌ s n ʌ f əl ˈ ʌ p ə ɡ ə s /), more commonly known as Mr. Snuffleupagus or Snuffy for short, is one of the characters on Sesame ...
Snuffy (disambiguation) Snuff film, a type of film that shows a murder; Creamy snuff, a snuff paste; Chewing tobacco, a type of smokeless tobacco product; Naswar, a moist tobacco product; Snus, a Swedish tobacco product; Khat, a flowering plant chewed as a recreational stimulant
Snuffy Jenkins (1909–1990), American banjo player Leighton W. Smith Jr. (born 1939), retired United States Navy four-star admiral Maynard Harrison Smith (1911–1984), United States Air Force staff sergeant and Medal of Honor recipient
A snuff film is a movie in a purported genre of films in which a person is actually murdered, though some variations of the definition may include films that show people dying by suicide. According to existing definitions, snuff films can be pornographic and are made for financial gain but are supposedly "circulated amongst a jaded few for the ...
Snuffie or Snuffy – Junior Marine, lance corporal and below. SOC or (SOC) – Special Operations Capable used in conjunction with MEU written as MEU (SOC). SOG Sgt. of the Guard – The acting Sgt (or near rank) Commanding the 'COG' Corporal of the Guard and all other marines for watch, radio watch, or post. Soup Cooler – Synonym for the ...
[5] Most reference works, including the Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, supply an origin date of 1940–1944, generally attributing it to the United States Army. [ citation needed ] Rick Atkinson ascribes the origin of SNAFU, FUBAR , and a bevy of other terms to cynical G.I.s ridiculing the Army's penchant for acronyms.
Barney Google and Snuffy Smith, originally Take Barney Google, for Instance, [1] [note 1] is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Billy DeBeck. Since its debut on June 17, 1919, [ 3 ] the strip has gained a large international readership, appearing in 900 newspapers in 21 countries.