snuffle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To breathe noisily, as through a blocked nose.
2. v. To sniff.
3. v. To talk or sing nasally; whine.
4. v. To utter in a snuffling tone.
5. n. The act of snuffling or the sound produced by it.
6. n. The sniffles. Used with the.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To breathe hard through the nose, or through the nose when obstructed; draw the breath noisily on account of obstructions in the nasal passages; snuff up mucus in the nose by short catches of breath; speak through the nose: sometimes used, especially in the present participle, of affected, canting talk or persons: as, a snuffling fellow.
2. To take offense.
3. n. A sound made by the passage of air through the nostrils; the audible drawing up of air or of mucus by inhalation, especially in short catches of breath.
4. n. plural Troublesome mucous discharge from the nostrils. Also sniffles.
5. n. A speaking through the nose, especially with short audible breaths; an affected nasal twang; hence, cant.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive to sniff with the nose loudly and audibly
2. v. intransitive to make something or someone quiet.
3. v. intransitive to travel in a car at the pace of a snail.
4. v. intransitive to sniff or smell something very loudly; harsh.
5. n. An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
2. n. The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.
3. n. An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
4. n. colloq. Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. sniff or smell inquiringly
2. n. the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)
3. v. cry or whine with snuffling
4. v. snuff up mucus through the nose