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wuffle

wuffle noun: a gentle sniff or snort.

Noun

wuffle (plural wuffles)

  1. A gentle sniff or snort.
    • Gray Dan'l begged for more—both carrots and loving. Even Gatesby acted glad to see her, a wuffle warming her fingers as he picked up his carrot.1992, Lauraine Snelling, Kentucky Dreamer, Bethany House Publishers, →ISBN, page 37
    • Harley smiled at the dog's contented wuffle and sigh. "How long until Guin is up and around?"1996, Alison Kent, Call Me, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 157

Verb

wuffle (third-person singular simple present wuffles, present participle wuffling, simple past and past participle wuffled)

  1. To sniff or snort gently.
    • Nosing deeply over that opinion, he suddenly cocked an indignant leg, back scratched with vigour and made a wuffling sound in his whiskers about what would happen to that scoundrel if he came misusing our rocks again.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 130
    • The black muzzle went 'wuffle, wuffle' over the sand and the man saw the short hairs bristle along its spine. Then the dog was called off and Giant Grum went up the bank.1942, “BB”, in The Litte Grey Men, Eyre & Spottiswoode

wuffle meaning in Tamil

wuffle in Tamil

பேரிரைச்சல்

Examples of wuffle in a sentence

  • Raj leaned back in the saddle and Horace halted with a resentful wuffle.2003, S. M. Stirling, David Drake, Conqueror, Baen Books, →ISBN, page 58:
  • The next room was in darkness and silent apart from a stricken wuffle.2005, Barbara Cleverly, The Damascened Blade, Delta, →ISBN, page 77:
  • At the word "treats," Jelly Bean jerked up her head and a sub-woofer wuffle fluttered her nostrils.2009, Anne Louise MacDonald, Seeing Red, Kids Can Press, →ISBN, page 181:
  • He took a deep breath, then let it wuffle out through his thick gray mustache.2001, Harry Turtledove, The Great War: Breakthroughs, Del Ray, →ISBN, page 138:

Forms of wuffle

Noun
pluralwuffles
Verb
third-person singular presentwuffles
present participlewuffling
past participlewuffled
pastwuffled

Questions about wuffle

What does wuffle mean?
Wuffle means a gentle sniff or snort.
What is wuffle in Tamil?
Wuffle in Tamil is பேரிரைச்சல். See Wuffle meaning in Tamil.
How do you use wuffle in a sentence?
Raj leaned back in the saddle and Horace halted with a resentful wuffle.
What part of speech is wuffle?
Wuffle can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of wuffle?
The plural of wuffle is wuffles.

Words near wuffle in the dictionary

  1. Wuests
  2. Wufeng
  3. wuff
  4. wuffed
  5. wuffing
  6. wuffle
  7. wuffled
  8. wuffler
  9. wufflers
  10. wuffles
  11. wuffless

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: wuffle (page history and authors); wuffle (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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