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snuffle

verb
/ˈsnʌfəl/

Etymology

Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff + -le. Compare also Old English snofl (“snot, nasal mucus”), which might not have survived into Middle English.

  1. derived from snuffen — “to snuff, sniff, snuffle”
  2. suffixed as snuffle — “snuff + -le”

Definitions

  1. To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.

  2. To speak through the nose

    To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.

    • One clad in purple / Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme […] / Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.

  3. An act of snuffling

    An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.

The neighborhood

Derived

snuffler, snuffly

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA