snuffle
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 13
- Words With Friends
- 16
- Letters
- 7
Definition of snuffle
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
- (intransitive)To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
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verb
- (intransitive)To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
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(intransitive)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.”
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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