snuffle

1. v. i. To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound. Source: opted

2. n. The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed. Source: opted

3. n. An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy. Source: opted

4. n. Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children. Source: opted

5. n. the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested) Source: wordnet

6. v. sniff or smell inquiringly Source: wordnet

7. v. snuff up mucus through the nose Source: wordnet

8. v. cry or whine with snuffling Source: wordnet

9. 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. Dryden. 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. Coleridge. 2. An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy. 3. pl. Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children. [Colloq.] Source: webster

10. 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. Source: adambom

11. 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 Source: ecdict

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