Thesaurus: snuffle
To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
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Definitions
- 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.
- n. the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)
- v. sniff or smell inquiringly
- v. snuff up mucus through the nose
- v. cry or whine with snuffling
- To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when itis 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. Dryden.
- n:28/v:72 n. the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) v. snuff up mucus through the nose