breathe noisily through the nose due to a cold or crying:Alice was weeping quietly, snuffling a little
(especially of an animal) make repeated sniffing sounds as though smelling at something:the collie snuffled around his boots (as noun snuffling)she heard a strange, persistent snuffling
noun
a sniff or sniffing sound:a silence broken only by the faint snuffles of the dogs
(usually the snuffles) informal a cold or other infection that causes sniffing:he went down with the snuffles
Derivatives
snuffler
noun
snuffly
adjective (snufflier, snuffliest)
Origin:
late 16th century: probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen; compare with snuff2 and snivel
snuffle in other Oxford dictionaries
Definition of snuffle in the US English dictionary
