snuffle
Meanings
verb
- To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
- To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
noun
- An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.
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Etymology
Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff + -le. Compare also Old English snofl (“snot, nasal mucus”), which might not have survived into Middle English.
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