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snuffling

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snuf·fle  (snfl)
v. snuf·fled, snuf·fling, snuf·fles
v.intr.
1. To breathe noisily, as through a blocked nose.
2. To sniff.
3. To talk or sing nasally; whine.
v.tr.
To utter in a snuffling tone.
n.
1. The act of snuffling or the sound produced by it.
2. snuffles The sniffles. Used with the.
[Probably from Dutch snuffelen, to sniff about, probably frequentative of snuffen, to sniff, from Middle Dutch snuiven.]
snuffler n.
snuffly adj.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.snuffling - liable to sniffle
sniffly, snuffly
tearful - filled with or marked by tears; "tearful eyes"; "tearful entreaties"


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No one else could tell her anything so comforting or so reasonable as this little three-month-old creature when he lay at her breast and she was conscious of the movement of his lips and the snuffling of his little nose.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
I hear it and smell it: it hath come--their hour for hunt and procession, not indeed for a wild hunt, but for a tame, lame, snuffling, soft- treaders', soft-prayers' hunt,--
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
Presently, I heard a snuffling sound behind me and then a dog came frisking and wriggling to my feet.
Agnes Grey by Bronte, Anne View in context
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