resniff

Verb

resniff (third-person singular simple present resniffs, present participle resniffing, simple past and past participle resniffed)

1. (ambitransitive) To sniff again.
   • This apparently left the Colonial Office unmoved for it merely resniffed that no guns could be supplied from Great Britain because treaties with Egypt prevented guns from being shipped through the Suez Canal and that all available R.A.F. planes were engaged in the Berlin Airlift.1973, Norman Cleaveland, Bang! Bang! in Ampang: Dredging Tin During Malaya's "emergency."
   • She'd hop around, resniff the smell from different angles, then take a tentative swipe at it, upending a dollop of turf.2010, Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, →ISBN