[
UK
/snˈʌfəl/
]
VERB
- snuff up mucus through the nose
- sniff or smell inquiringly
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cry or whine with snuffling
Stop snivelling--you got yourself into this mess!
NOUN
- the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)
How To Use snuffle In A Sentence
- I went down each morning to say my hellos to the pigs and the people: cute little wee black piglets and mighty great boars and snufflers.
- Perhaps it was a bush pig that would grunt and snuffle away when it spotted her.
- I open up my nostril slits and wetly snuffle the air for the faint stink of friends. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
- The girl on the seat beside her snuffled, one sob completely spent, the next just a whimper building in her chest. Uprising
- I really missed hearing his little snuffles in the night; spent most of the night awake straining to hear him breathing over the monitor.
- I'm about three weeks overdue for my monthly snuffles, I reckon.
- From April on, one in every four Americans suffers from the sneezes, snuffles and itchiness of hay fever - the catch-all term for a range of allergic diseases, the most common of which is allergic rhinitis.
- No sobs, no snuffles, just tears sliding down my pale cheeks.
- said John to Teddy, who had dropped his nose to snuffle the gravel drive, and they marched in a small circle, cooling out. BARN BLIND
- (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. The Disowned — Volume 07