Crossword clues for snuffle
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snuffle \Snuf"fle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Snuffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Snuffling.] [Freq. of snuff, v.i.; akin to LG. snuffeln, G. schn["u]ffeln, D. snuffeln, Dan. sn["o]vle. Cf. Sniffle.] 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.
--Dryden.
Snuffle \Snuf"fle\, n.
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The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.
This dread sovereign, Breath, in its passage, gave a snort or snuffle.
--Coleridge. An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
pl. Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children. [Colloq.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from Dutch or Flemish snuffelen "to sniff about, pry," related to Dutch and Flemish snuffen "to sniff" (see snuff (v.2)). Related: Snuffled; snuffling.
1764, "sound made by snuffling," from snuffle (v.). Old English had snofl (n.) "phlegm, mucus." The snuffles "troublesome mucous discharge from the nostrils" is from 1770.
Wiktionary
n. An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly vb. 1 (context intransitive English) to sniff with the nose loudly and audibly. 2 (context intransitive English) To sniff or smell something very loudly. 3 (context intransitive English) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
WordNet
Usage examples of "snuffle".
Snuffling loudly, she came close enough to nip at it and Alec snagged her by the head stall.
It was too far back to the bothy to fetch it, so we huddled down behind some rocks, and I spent the day shivering and listening to the old shepherd snuffling and sniveling until, at last, he rose and declared it time to gather the flock.
A dog rose up snarling, then snuffled at Caille and flopped back down as if it were their own dog, only startled out of sleep.
Next I bought a joint, a popper, a phial of cocaine and a plug of opium from a fat spade in Times Square and snuffled it all up in a gogo bar toilet.
She could hear better now that her visitor had gone, for he had creaked the old floorboards and snuffled and huffled as well as interrupted with loud words.
Ffups lap, popped a knobbly talon into his mouth and closed his eyes with a happy snuffle.
The transparent creature, immensely startled, darted away like a minnow, and by the time the snuffling Lollypop had shuffled across the deck and climbed down to the floor, the thing was clinging upside-down to one of the ceiling beams, as tight and still as a pink glass bat.
Aunt Louise kept up a constant snuffling laughter, punctuated momently by faint whoops.
He disarmed the vizier while Yualla strolled over to where Murg squatted, snuffling and trembling, and searched him for weapons.
The herbal tea spread across the floor, and the peeve drank it, sneezing and snuffling.
I mean to say, when they snift they snift, and when they snuffle theyas it weresnuffle.
He knew he had stayed awake longer than the others because he remembered hearing their snoring and snuffling and thinking how loud it was.
He felt a tingle pass down his spine when he realized he was hearing a great bear snuffling among the autumn leaves, probably following their scent.
Even the snuffling and pawing of a wandering bear in the blackness just beyond the circle of flickering light would have provided some measure of comfort and reassurance, for, in fact, there were few signs of any life apart from the creaking of timber, the sighing of the canopy far above, scattered spoor in the morning, and the half-ruins of deserted human habitation.
No animal came snuffling at the perimeter of their camp, no wind moved among the trees, no insects called out in the night.