snuffle
noun
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L328064 on Wikidata ↗verb
- snort mucus back up nose
- sniff at inquiringly
- snivel, cry, or whine with sniffling
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈsnʌfəl/
noun
Etymology: Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff + -le. Compare also Old English snofl (“snot, nasal mucus”), which might not have survived into Middle English.
- An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.
verb
Etymology: Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff + -le. Compare also Old English snofl (“snot, nasal mucus”), which might not have survived into Middle English.
- To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
- 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.”