Snuffle
['snʌf(ə)l] or ['snʌfl]
Definition
(noun.) the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested).
(verb.) snuff up mucus through the nose.
Checker: Sumner--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Editor: Quentin
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Sniffle.
Checker: Velma
Examples
- 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. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Mr. Raffles ended with a jocose snuffle: no man felt his intellect more superior to religious cant. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Go when you will, you find somebody snuffling over that tomb. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I must say for Mr. Guppy that the snuffling manner he had had upon him improved very much. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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