DCHP-1 Online
snoose schnoose, snoosh, snooze [< Mod.Scand. snus, shortening of snustobak(k) snuff] 
n. a kind of snuff, prepared damp and in grated form, usually chewed; chewing snuff.
See also: Copenhagen snoose
- 1912 Loud were the lamentations of the foreigners when his "snooze" gave out, "snooze" being the local familiarity for snuff.
- 1958 The pioneers with their oxen and their skid roads greased with Whale blubber and their lower lips packed with snoose could hardly be expected to know the tree's very virtues were one of the seeds of its destruction.
- 1965 [Caption] ". . . just before ya face the old lady ya shove a wad of schnoose in yer mouth . . . she'll never smell yer breath."
- 1912 Loud were the lamentations of the foreigners when his "snooze" gave out, "snooze" being the local familiarity for snuff.