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Sniffle   /snˈɪfəl/   Listen
Sniffle

verb
1.
Cry or whine with snuffling.  Synonyms: blub, blubber, snivel, snuffle.
2.
Inhale audibly through the nose.  Synonym: sniff.






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"Sniffle" Quotes from Famous Books



... choked the little painter, winking and making horrible faces at the littered chair, "don't you go to taking on. Don't you do it. I'll call up Westcott. The old gladiator!" Somehow he turned his sniffle to a snort. "What in thunder does she want to be painted for anyway? She's got a nose like a triangle and the composition of her ...
— Kenny • Leona Dalrymple

... such stuff would have upon ME!" She rose, visibly agitated. "What if it WAS true?" she demanded, bitterly. "What if it was true a hundred times over? You sit there with your silly face half ready to giggle and half ready to sniffle, and tell me stories like that, about Sibyl picking on Bobby Lamhorn and worrying him to death, and you think it matters to ME? What if I already KNEW all about their 'quarreling'? What if I understood WHY she—" She ...
— The Turmoil - A Novel • Booth Tarkington

... in mind, opened half the windows in the house, thus forcing his men to work fast and furiously or freeze. Harvey almost perished in the icy draughts. He shut the front door fifty times or more, and was beginning to sniffle and sneeze when Bridget took pity on him and invited him into the kitchen. He hugged the cook stove for several hours, mutely watching the two servants through the open door of their joint bedroom off the kitchen while they stuffed their meagre belongings ...
— What's-His-Name • George Barr McCutcheon



Words linked to "Sniffle" :   blubber, inhale, snivel, breathe in, cry, respiration, snuffle, weep, external respiration, blub, breathing, ventilation, sniff, sniffly, inspire



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