snuffy

adj

1. Soiled with snuff.
2. Resembling or characteristic of snuff.
3. (Scotland, obsolete)Sulky; angry; vexed.

   “I must now let you know what sort of a personage this same First President is; you imagine that he is a disagreeable snuffy old fellow”

   “The postchaise contained a snuffy old dowager of seventy, with a maid, her contemporary.”

4. (slang)Drunk.

   “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.”

5. That causes sniffing and nasal irritation due to dust.

   “Giving that up, she took a broom and a duster and went upstairs to housemaid Mrs Dibble's bedroom, with her head tied up in a coloured scarf. It was a dusty, snuffy job, for penuriousness in Mrs Dibble refused to throw anything away, including dirt, and if anything fell on the floor it remained there.”