Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Nautical, a capful of wind.

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  • noun a person who sniffles

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  • noun a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose

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Examples

  • A box of Kleenex aloe soothes the sniffler now no more red nose navigate recent archive friends userinfo about hradzka

    fic: "Seven Sunday Mother-Daughter Mornings" (SCC) hradzka 2009

  • Worked on book-y stuff in between making porridge and reading to the little sniffler and doing chores.

    September 21st, 2006 wheatland_press 2006

  • Loser of pet toads, sniffler, and klutz extraordinaire, Harry's Gryffindor classmate could be done in by his own sad Neville-ness.

    Which Harry Potter Character Gets Whacked? 2005

  • Loser of pet toads, sniffler, and klutz extraordinaire, Harry's Gryffindor classmate could be done in by his own sad Neville-ness.

    Which Harry Potter Character Gets Whacked? 2005

  • • The New York Times found the only legal Mexican immigrant in San Antonio (kidding!) to create a tripartite sniffler about three sisters: Racquel (the legal one), Veronica (who lives “furtively”) and Irma (who moved home to Mexico).

    VDARE.com Reads Illegal Alien Sob Stories so You Don’t Have to 2006

  • • The New York Times found the only legal Mexican immigrant in San Antonio (kidding!) to create a tripartite sniffler about three sisters: Racquel (the legal one), Veronica (who lives “furtively”) and Irma (who moved home to Mexico).

    VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » VDARE.com Reads Illegal Alien Sob Stories so You Don’t Have to 2006

  • • The New York Times found the only legal Mexican immigrant in San Antonio (kidding!) to create a tripartite sniffler about three sisters: Racquel (the legal one), Veronica (who lives “furtively”) and Irma (who moved home to Mexico).

    VDARE.com Reads Illegal Alien Sob Stories so You Don’t Have to 2006

  • Shelden is even sniffler about Crick, criticizing him for pedantry and impersonality, and pillorying his laborious method of marshaling often contradictory sources and refusing to adjudicate between them.

    Orwell: The Authorized Biography (review) 1992

  • As the wan mother watched the end of the transaction which left the sniffler now quite consoled, in possession of the modest coin, she said naïvely –

    The Convert 1907

  • As the wan mother watched the end of the transaction which left the sniffler now quite consoled, in possession of the modest coin, she said naïvely --

    The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907

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  • Nautical, "a capful of wind". --Century Dictionary

    May 8, 2011