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noun
Snuffle  n.  
1.
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."
2.
An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
3.
pl. Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children. (Colloq.)


verb
Snuffle  v. i.  (past & past part. snuffled; pres. part. snuffling)  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."





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"Snuffle" Quotes from Famous Books



... the old woman dared not move, for fear her boots might creak. She continually wiped her eyes with the back of her hand, and rather than snuffle, heroically endured ...
— If You Touch Them They Vanish • Gouverneur Morris
... household, and most certainly neither at Stoke Revel—would be enlivened by some of the boy's pranks. He would pass over to the sideboard, pepper-pot slyly in hand, and Rupert, whose meal at this hour consisted of grape-nuts and cream, would unaccountably sneeze and snuffle over his plate. ...
— Robinetta • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... said the old man, with a snuffle in his voice—"Master Myles, thy father would see thee in his chamber, and bade me send thee to him as soon as thou didst come home. Oh, Master Myles, I fear me that belike thou art going to ...
— Men of Iron • Ernie Howard Pyle
... Paris from Bordeaux, and so long ago as 1835 he had retired from business without making any change for the better in his dress, so faithful is the race to old tradition. The persecutions of the Middle Ages compelled them to wear rags, to snuffle and whine and groan over their poverty in self-defence, till the habits induced by the necessities of other times have come to be, as ...
— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac
... wishful, also, to abate the impression which his companion's indiscreet intimation of dislike to psalm-singers and Puritans might have produced. "There is a time to buy and to sell, and to get gain; a time to marry, and a time to be merry and be glad:" here he used a sort of whining snuffle, which frustrated his attempts at neutralising the sarcasms of his friend. "Being in haste," he continued, "we may not profit by thy discourse; but commend ourselves to his prayers until our return, which, God willing, we may safely accomplish in a ...
— Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 (of 2) • John Roby


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