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noun
Snuffle  n.  
1.
The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed. "This dread sovereign, Breath, in its passage, gave a snort or snuffle."
2.
An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
3.
pl. Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children. (Colloq.)





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"Snuffle" Quotes from Famous Books



... back was to the door, and there was no mirror. He saw the brown eye of Barker glued to the little circle of glass, and he crossed the room without a word and snapped down the black shutter provided for the purpose, and then heard Barker snuffle away along the passage. ...
— Three More John Silence Stories • Algernon Blackwood
... had no reason and no wish to wound; and they could never know what sweet and noble natures had been producing their voices through their noses there in Germany. I for my part could not insist; who, indeed, can defend the American accent, which is not so much an accent as a whiffle, a snuffle, a twang? It was mortifying, all the same, to have it openly abhorred by a foreigner, and I willingly got away from the question to that of the weather. We agreed admirably about the heat in England where this gentleman went every summer, and had never found it so hot before. It was hot even in Denmark; ...
— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells
... Englewood whose pure Puritan lips never had been and never could be defiled by cigarettes and tobacco. The young lady of Englewood, the young lady of Englewood, what a jewel of women was she and what a fool he had been and how unkind and inconsiderate! Recalled by a little snuffle from the odalisque, he saw the puckered lips were relaxing sorrowfully and fearing the girl would cry, he hastily sat down beside her and put his right arm about her. But he did not take the shapely hand that now laid down the meerschaum, and though her head fell on his shoulder and her breath ...
— The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton • Wardon Allan Curtis
... up, and she was wearing a large apron over her striped petticoat. Her little black nose went sniffle, sniffle, snuffle, and her eyes went twinkle, twinkle; and underneath her cap—where Lucie had yellow curls—that ...
— The Tale of Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle • Beatrix Potter


Words linked to "Snuffle" :   inhale, breathe in, sniffle, weep, cry, smell, snivel, external respiration, ventilation, blub, snuffly, snuff, breathing, inspire


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