1 to breathe noisily because you have a cold or you are crying
SYNSNIFF:
[V] I could hear the child snuffling in her sleep. [also Vspeech]
2 [V] ~ (about / around) if an animal snuffles, it breathes noisily through its nose, especially while it is smelling sth:
The dog was snuffling around in the bushes.
noun (also less frequent snuffling) an act or the sound of snuffling:
The silence was broken only by the snuffles of the dogs. * His breath came in snuffles.
IDIOMS
get, have, etc. the snuffles (informal) to get/have a cold
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
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Is snuffle a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, snuffle is tagged as verb.
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