Crossword clues for sniff
sniff
- Audible inhalation
- Sound of sadness
- Haughty reaction
- Disdainer's noise
- What bloodhounds love to do
- Try to figure out where that smell is coming from
- Smell the roses, say
- Slight suspicion (perceived though the nose?)
- Sense scents
- Sense by smell
- Scratch-and- --
- Scratch and ___
- Quick smell
- Perfume sample?
- One way to check for freshness
- Investigate, canine-style
- Investigate, as a dog does
- Hunt for truffles
- Express disdain nasally
- Examine luggage, in a way
- Emulate bloodhounds
- Check for smells
- [That's disappointing news]
- Haughty response
- Sound after a tear is shed
- Express disdain (at)
- Check for odors
- [Well, see if I care!]
- Check for freshness, in a way
- Disdainful response
- Sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
- Whiff
- Enjoy the fragrance
- Show scorn
- Emulate a bloodhound
- Inhale audibly
- Inhale audibly through the nose
- Audible air intake
- Show disdain
- Take a whiff of
- Get a whiff of
- Use a sense
- Cold sound
- Scratch's partner
- Nose around?
- Check for a gas leak, perhaps
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sniff \Sniff\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sniffedor Snift; p. pr. & vb. n. Sniffing.] [OE. sneven; akin to snivel, snuff; cf. Dan. snive to sniff. See Snuff, v. t.] To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
So ye grow squeamish, gods, and sniff at heaven.
--M.
Arnold.
Sniff \Sniff\, v. t.
To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.
Sniff \Sniff\, n. The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., of imitative origin; possibly related to snyvelen (see snivel). As an expression of scorn or contempt from 1729. As a synonym for smell (v.) it dates from 1845. In reference to cocaine from 1925. Related: Sniffed; sniffing.
1767, from sniff (v.); the scornful sense is from 1859.
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 sniffing, for example in case of illness or unhappiness, or in contempt. 3 (context transitive English) To perceive vaguely 4 To be dismissive or contemptuous of something. 5 (context computing English) To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network. 6 (context slang UK English) To inhale drugs in powder form (usually cocaine) through the nose.
WordNet
n. sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose [syn: snuff]
Wikipedia
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.