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snuffle

/ˈsnʌfəl/

snuffle verb: to sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.

Verb

snuffle (third-person singular simple present snuffles, present participle snuffling, simple past and past participle snuffled)

  1. (intransitive) To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
  2. (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.1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […]...

Noun

snuffle (plural snuffles)

  1. An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.

snuffle meaning in Tamil

snuffle in Tamil

மூக்கில் உள்ள சளியை உறிந்சுதல், மூக்கை உறிஞ்சி அழுதல், பூனைத்தடுமல், பூனைத்திசுத்தெம்பர்

Forms of snuffle

Verb
third-person singular presentsnuffles
present participlesnuffling
past participlesnuffled
pastsnuffled
Noun
pluralsnuffles

Origin of snuffle

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.

Words formed from snuffle

Words that rhyme with snuffle

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Questions about snuffle

What does snuffle mean?
Snuffle means to sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
What is snuffle in Tamil?
Snuffle in Tamil is மூக்கில் உள்ள சளியை உறிந்சுதல், மூக்கை உறிஞ்சி அழுதல், பூனைத்தடுமல். See Snuffle meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is snuffle?
Snuffle can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce snuffle?
Snuffle is pronounced /ˈsnʌfəl/.
What is the past tense of snuffle?
The past tense of snuffle is snuffled.

Words near snuffle in the dictionary

  1. snuffing it
  2. snuffing out
  3. snuffingly
  4. snuffings
  5. snuffish
  6. snuffle
  7. snuffled
  8. snuffler
  9. snufflers
  10. snuffles
  11. snuffless

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Adapted from Wiktionary: snuffle (page history and authors); snuffle (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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