sniffishness

sniffishness

English

Etymology

sniffish +‎ -ness

Noun

sniffishness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being sniffish.
   • 1922, Harold Hunter Armstrong, For Richer, for Poorer, page 129:

     But he was free from any trace of the conventional masculine sniffishness toward the jilted woman; instead, he visualized, more vividly than ever, the bitter humiliation of Miriam's ordeal.