snuffle

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  1. intransitive verb To breathe noisily, as through a blocked nose.
  2. intransitive verb To sniff.
  3. intransitive verb To talk or sing nasally; whine.
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  • She gave a long hard snuffle, and then blew her nose on a paper towel from the table beside her. —  DearlyDevotedDexter
  • He gave a huge snuffle, a little too late for my shirt. —  DearlyDevotedDexter
  • Again she heard a horse— this time a snort and a snuffle, and much, much closer. —  Cheyenne McCray - Spellbound.pdf.htm
  • Its snuffle was consequential and its sneeze oracular. —  Jacob Faithful
  • Do not whine or snuffle, but get ahead in the world while you can. —  The Red Conspiracy
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Probably from Dutch snuffelen, to sniff about, probably frequentative of snuffen, to sniff, from Middle Dutch snuiven.

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  1. from Low German snuffeln = Dutch snuffelen = Swedish snöfla = Danish snövle, snuffie: see snivel, sniffle, and snuff.
  2. from snuffle, v.
 

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