Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To breathe audibly through a runny or congested nose.
- v. To weep or whimper lightly with spasmodic congestion of the nose.
- n. The act or sound of sniffling.
- n. A condition, such as a head cold, accompanied by congestion of the nose. Used with the.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To snuffle.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To make a whimpering or sniffing sound when breathing because of a runny nose.
- n. The act, or the sound of sniffling; the condition of having a runny or wet nose, as from a cold or allergies.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. Prov. Eng. To snuffle, as one does with a catarrh.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)
- v. inhale audibly through the nose
- v. cry or whine with snuffling
Etymologies
- sniff + -le (“early modern English frequentative suffix”) (Wiktionary)
- Frequentative of sniff. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Except I think I am getting sick. * sniffle sniffle* Grargh. before | | this”
“Sadly, I'm starting to get them "sniffle, sniffle*, and I hope you all can help a little!”
“They suddenly heard a sniffle from the doorway and everyone looked up to see Jackie standing in the doorway to the control room.”
“I see the need (and remember well those scary years of having no health insurance -- not dragging the kids to the doctor for every sniffle, which is apparently the norm when insurance will pay the bill, facing hospital bills) ...”
“To my surprise, there were an awful lot of cocaine jokes last night, but the best was Farrell's quip that his sniffle was the result of a cold and not "that other thing, that it used to be.”
“She made me sniffle, more often than once, usually during festive seasons.”
Global Voices in English » Malaysia: Remembering film director Yasmin Ahmad
“Star Kissed was beautiful, Nalini, but also really kind of sad. * sniffle*”
“On a budget-crunch. * sniffle* My next purchase will be Blaze of Memory. * sigh* So can't wait.”
“I @ you quite often but you never respond. * sniffle* It's okay.”
“If the President can convey such a patriotic sense of possibility with vigor and meaning, he just might make the Speaker sniffle as he sits behind him on the rostrum Tuesday night.”
The Huffington Post: Jim Kennedy: Obama's Mission: Make Boehner Cry
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘sniffle’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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CCle
all those wonderful Britsy words that end with a double consonant followed by 'le'
doddle, bobble, dibble, whiffle, waffle, diddle, piddle, jiggle, straggle, boggle, fiddle, skeedaddle and 125 more...
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snose words
Words that relate to the nose, particularly those that begin with sn-
sniff, sneer, snub, sneeze, snarl, snort, snide, snout, snob, snooze, snot, snore and 11 more...
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The Nose Knows
Being Nosy.
nosethril, nostril, nebby, nasal, rhinoplasty, pug, button, Roman, turned-up, Pinocchio, Cyrano de Bergerac, Gonzo and 54 more...
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Waffle and such
waffle, raffle, piffle, trifle, rifle, sniffle, shuffle, duffel, ruffle, baffle, stifle
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[Open] Frequentative
“A verb which denotes the frequent occurrence or repetition of an action, as . . . waggle from wag.” — Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia.
Other examples include bobble (bob), bustle (b...dartle, stutter, agitate, dabble, waggle, aid, argue, daunt, expect, excite, espouse, dictate and 77 more...
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Not with a bang...
Whimpering, wailing words...
wheeple, whimper, whinge, whine, mewl, pule, moan, sniffle, snivel, weep, lament, mourn and 16 more...
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And another
retrocausality, brusque, gainsay, cheerio, jaundiced, chamois, caw, craw, fudge, bubbler, shebang, bolo and 244 more...
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words
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spartan, cram, quill, furor, rampart, enervate, placate, agitate, galvanize, spur, pricker, infuriate and 273 more...
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kmohnkern's Words
synecdoche, metonymy, crotch, sniffle, schism, bucolic, neologism, embiggen, coniferous, schadenfreude, akimbo, fitful and 27 more...
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Bodily Functions & pertaining to the ...
functions of the body, diseases in the body, body parts. etc.
erectile, spasm, twitch, paroxysm, seizure, humoralism, frothing, incisor, appendage, limb, twinge, saliva and 19 more...
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OM3 Lesson 33
elderly, actually, smell, leftovers, throw together, stew, garbage, truck, garbage man, garbage can, nail, nail scissors and 21 more...
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stragglers
double consonant -le verbs
hobble, straggle, huddle, hassle, addle, tattle, stipple, tipple, fiddle, peddle, coddle, cobble and 59 more...
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