Snuffle
['snʌf(ə)l] or ['snʌfl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested).
(verb.) snuff up mucus through the nose.
錄入:萨姆纳--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. i.) 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.) Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.
整理:昆廷
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Sniffle.
編輯:维尔玛
例句/造句/用法:
- But when he begins to put on a long face, and snuffle, and quote Scripture, I incline to think he isn't much better than he should be. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Mr. Raffles ended with a jocose snuffle: no man felt his intellect more superior to religious cant. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Go when you will, you find somebody snuffling over that tomb. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I must say for Mr. Guppy that the snuffling manner he had had upon him improved very much. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
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