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sniff
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 An instance of sniffing. 2 A quantity of something that is inhaled through the nose 3 A brief perception vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as if to smell something. 2 To say something while ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1767, from sniff (v.); the scornful sense is from 1859.
Usage examples of sniff.
The juice of the root is very acrid when sniffed up the nostrils, and causes a copious flow of water therefrom, thus giving marked relief for obstinate congestive headache of a dull, passive sort.
Can you sniff around for alarum glamours, sentinels, booby-traps, that kind of thing?
I fought with all my might to hold it back as Alder knelt and sniffed at the path.
Others milled happily around Alec, slapping him with their plumed tails and sniffing hopefully at the swans hanging at his saddlebow.
He sniffed the air, the scent a mixture of diesel oil and diesel exhaust from the emergency generator, ozone from the electrical equipment, cooking oil, lubricating oils, and amines from the atmospheric control equipment.
Wags thought so too as the dog avidly sniffed around the base of the stalls.
The paper had one other general reporter, Baggy Suggs, a pickled old goat who spent his hours hanging around the courthouse across the street sniffing for gossip and drinking bourbon with a small club of washed-up lawyers too old and too drunk to practice anymore.
So, for example, after getting out of such filth and beggarliness, after having scrubbed floors, she would suddenly start sniffing at our poverty!
She sniffed it, grinned, then tucked it under the bib of her sooty white apron.
The forty-foot barrels of the nine-inch guns moved restlessly, seeming to sniff for their prey, and the Blucher raced on, lifting a hissing white wave at her bows, vibrating and shuddering to the thrust of her engines as they built up to full speed.
Inspector bloody Charlie Resnick had been sniffing round the secondhand shop Terry rented out by Bobbers Mill.
All day spent with books has a rather exhausting effect on the mind, and he used to enjoy the fresh air sweeping up the dark Brooklyn streets, meditating some thought that had sprung from his reading, while Bock sniffed and padded along in the manner of an elderly dog at night.
Ashley sniffed as a bosomy blonde slid into his arms and momentarily rested her head on his shoulder.
The two beasts sniffed each other warily, then Bozo, like an anxious parent, began licking his pup as if to make certain that he was unharmed.
Here Bunning took a handkerchief and began miserably to gulp and sniff.