Category:Snuffle

Snuf"fle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Snuffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Snuffling.] Etym: [freq. of snuff, v.i.; akin to lg. snuffeln, g. schnüffeln, d. Snuffeln, dan. snövle. Cf. Sniffle.]

Defn: 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. Dryden.

Snuffle Snuf"fle, 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. Coleridge.

2. An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.

3. pl.

Defn: obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or Children. [colloq.]