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   snuffle

   /ˈsnʌfl/

   verb

   • 1. breathe noisily through the nose due to a cold or crying: "Alice was weeping quietly, snuffling a little"
   • ▪ (especially of an animal) make repeated sniffing sounds as though smelling at something: "the collie snuffled around his boots"

   noun

   • 1. a sniff or sniffing sound: "a silence broken only by the faint snuffles of the dogs"
   • ▪ a cold or other infection that causes sniffing: "he went down with the snuffles"

   Word Origin late 16th century: probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen; compare with snuff2 and snivel.

   Derivatives

   • 1. snuffler noun
   • 2. snuffly adjective

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