Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To breathe noisily, as through a blocked nose.
- v. To sniff.
- v. To talk or sing nasally; whine.
- v. To utter in a snuffling tone.
- n. The act of snuffling or the sound produced by it.
- n. The sniffles. Used with the.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- To take offense.
- 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.
- n. plural Troublesome mucous discharge from the nostrils. Also sniffles.
- n. A speaking through the nose, especially with short audible breaths; an affected nasal twang; hence, cant.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive to sniff with the nose loudly and audibly
- v. intransitive to make something or someone quiet.
- v. intransitive to travel in a car at the pace of a snail.
- v. intransitive to sniff or smell something very loudly; harsh.
- n. An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
- n. The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.
- n. An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
- n. colloq. Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.
WordNet 3.0
- v. sniff or smell inquiringly
- n. the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)
- v. cry or whine with snuffling
- v. snuff up mucus through the nose
Etymologies
- Probably from Dutch snuffelen, to sniff about, probably frequentative of snuffen, to sniff, from Middle Dutch snuiven. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“He heard a kind of snuffle, then a buffalo just brushed him as it went past.”
“(N.B. -- This ejaculation denotes the kind of snuffle which lent peculiar energy to the dicta of Mr. Culpepper.) "Ring the bell, then, and summon the landlord," said, very pertinently, one of the three disputants upon the character of Wilkes.”
“loanan" -- what they call a "boreen" in other parts of Ireland -- the other man, who was a bit of a wag, would put his hand to his nose, and make a motion of putting it aside, as if there was not sufficient room for two such organs, and call out with a kind of snuffle: "Pass, Brian!”
“The intercoms sold to let parents listen in to every snuffle, sob and cry operate in the same frequency band as the wireless networks more and more of us are installing and can generate so much interference that they make them unusable.”
“I open up my nostril slits and wetly snuffle the air for the faint stink of friends.”
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“He heard a snuffle behind him -- a half-choking gasp or cough.”
“Again came the snuffle and cough, and outlined between two jagged rocks not a score of feet away he made out the gray head of a wolf.”
“A cabayo made that stuttering snuffle, and someone laughed, the sound carrying in the night.”
“He heard a snuffle behind him — a half-choking gasp or cough.”
“The pigs snuffle and giggle worryingly – you really must try again just to get that last pig.”
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double consonant -le verbs
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