English Dictionary

snootful

名詞

くだけた表現

(informal) A noseful. / (informal) A significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage.

日本語の意味

（口語・非公式）鼻に入る量、すなわち鼻が満たされるほどの量としての意味 / （口語・非公式）大量、特にかなりの量のアルコール飲料を摂取する様子を指す意味

When she sneezed, she accidentally inhaled a snootful of perfume.

彼女がくしゃみをしたとき、うっかり香水を鼻いっぱい吸い込んでしまった。

意味（1）

(informal) A noseful.

Suddenly the Soda Butte animals are getting great snootfuls of scent laid down over the past month by other wolves, which apparently leaves them with a certain longing for their own quiet, unsullied digs far to the northeast...

意味（2）

(informal) A significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage.

Only active measures, promptly applied, can provide this poor, pusillanimous poop with the proper pep. And that is why, Jeeves, I intend tomorrow to secure a bottle of gin and lace his luncheon orange juice with it liberally. . . . The truth of the matter being that he is just a plain, ordinary poop and needs a snootful as badly as ever man did.

snootfuls （ plural ）