snuffle

Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff +‎ -le.

• IPA^(key): /snʌfəl/

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• Rhymes: -ʌfəl

snuffle (third-person singular simple present snuffles, present participle snuffling, simple past and past participle snuffled)

1. (intransitive) To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
2. (intransitive) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
   • 1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:

     One clad in purple / Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme […] / Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.

• snuffler
• snuffly

• sniffle (verb), snivel (verb)

snuffle (plural snuffles)

1. An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.

• sniffle (noun)
• Snuffleupagus

• schnozzle