Definition of snuffle in English:

snuffle

verb ˈsnʌf(ə)lˈsnəfəl

[no object]

1Breathe noisily through the nose due to a cold or crying.
（因感冒、哭泣而）呼哧呼哧地呼吸
Alice was weeping quietly, snuffling a little
艾丽丝静静地啜泣，抽抽鼻子。
Example sentencesExamples
- Everyone nodded at that, and Tiffany snuffled miserably.
- Everyone's snuffling, everyone's hot, everyone wants nothing more than to repose on the sofa and have prepackaged entertainment piped down our eyeballs.
- My mother and I watched the film in the early-evening gloom, snuffling, our noses emptying steadily into our Kleenexes.
- I won't be any good if I keep snuffling and sneezing and feeling worse.
- Last time it was that ‘When She Loved Me’ song, which had half the audience snuffling; this time it's the last four minutes.
- Another tear replaced the first, and another, then another and another, until I was snuffling, low whines coming from my throat.
- While the appellant testified the complainant had been snuffling, she testified she was crying because he had intimidated her to the point of exhaustion, frustration and fear.
- Unwilling to say too much in case the boy, fading from sobs to snuffling, was listening, Al rolled his eyes.
- I drew him closer to me, rocking him slightly as he snuffled and snored.
- Elliot still was snuffling in his punctured sleep.
- The girl was behind me, snuffling, almost completely submersed in the wardrobe.
- He stood there, shaking violently, then dropped to his knees and snuffled and choked uncontrollably; weeping.
- Even unfortunate hay-fever sufferers bravely get in on the action, sniffling and snuffling under the branches behind the haphazard protection of white masks.
- He stopped trying to pull away and snuffled quietly.
- She lay facing the wall, snuffling quietly, tousling her kitty's head.
- When I got up to my room, my head was spinning as I snuffled into a handkerchief.
- I snuffled, and leant against his warm body, comforted a little by his arm, which was around me waist, his hand resting on my stomach.
- Carrie was sitting at the kitchen table, crying, and snuffling and blowing her nose.
Synonyms
inhale, snuffle, breathe in, snuff, snuff up
1. 1.1 (especially of an animal) make repeated sniffing sounds as though smelling at something.
  （尤指动物像嗅东西般）反复喷鼻；发出呼哧呼哧的鼻息声
  the collie snuffled around his boots
  那只柯利牧羊犬绕着他的靴子呼哧呼哧地嗅个不停。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The next morning they wake up and go around the whole farm snuffling at the earth, rolling in the dew, eating the grass and so on, overwhelmed with excitement that it is all theirs.
  The gelding snuffled at Thorn for a moment, the girl allowing a half-smile.
  Then I could hear one thing more: the Dog was snuffling.
  I lay with my arms wrapped tightly around my chest, listening to the shack moving in the wind, and animals snuffling outside.
  They whimpered and whined as they raised their noses to the air and snuffled at the smell that drifted into the clean air.
  It gently placed its right paw in the crook of my arm and snuffled its wet nose in my ear.
  The horse snuffled at his neck, but the boy continued to cry.
  Glory nickered and bobbed his head in way of greeting, before stretching his nose to snuffle my face.
  A few moments later, I felt a cold, wet nose snuffling in the palm of my hand.
  The dog buried his nose up to his ears in the cotton fabric, huffing and snuffling as he drank in the scent.
  He started snuffling in the grass and scratching at a few things.
  The bear is snuffling and snorting and looking around the picnic table for more food.
  The Arabian came up to the paddock rail and snuffled at him.
  Dust kicked up as the dragon sniffed and snuffled around, searching for their scent.
  They snorted and snuffled, hackles raised, dancing sideways, eyeing each other.
  I could see something snuffling in the dark, I could hear the breathing but I didn't know what it was, didn't even know how I'd gotten here.
  When the first birds woke I pretended to sleep, wrapped tightly, wind and animals snuffling outside.
  He crawled on his hands and knees over to Michael, afraid that the warhorse wouldn't let him near, but the grey snuffled at his hair and backed carefully away.
  Anyhow, ten this morning he heard the radio click on then came snuffling at the bottom of the duvet to get me up and out of bed.
  She arched and snuffled at me, big brown eyes watching me closely.

noun ˈsnʌf(ə)lˈsnəfəl

1A sniff or sniffing sound.
用力吸气；吸气声
a silence broken only by the faint snuffles of the dogs
只有微弱的狗的吸鼻声才时而打破的沉寂。
Example sentencesExamples
- Then my ears perked up as I heard an unmistakable snuffle.
- Dolly has discovered that the little West Highland puppy next door is willing to exchange cautious sniffs and snuffles under the fence and I think she's quite taken with the little mite.
- I really missed hearing his little snuffles in the night; spent most of the night awake straining to hear him breathing over the monitor.
- Which was very nice, but the moment was broken by the snuffles coming from the cloud of blonde hair to my right.
- Deer cropped the springy turf beside us, so close we could hear every snuffle and chomp.
- However, I took the risk of putting a hand close to a yowling muzzle and was greeted with a cold nose and a non-committal snuffle before the full-on baying started again.
- The crying stopped, muffled by a snuffle, hands swiping away tears, throat unclogging in a cough.
- It was so close that she could hear its hot breath escaping in snuffles and wheezes from its fleshy black nose and blood-red mouth.
- No sobs, no snuffles, just tears sliding down my pale cheeks.
- Okay, so my neighbour may have heard the faintest of snuffles coming from the vague direction of my garden chair as he rattled and coughed his way into his shed in an embarrassed, but valiant, attempt to pretend he hadn't actually seen me.
- Little whimpers and snuffles started to come out of the girl's mouth.
- Within a few moments, a wet nose poked itself out from the tablecloth, sniffed at the offered morsel for a few moments, and giving a snuffle of disdain, withdrew itself immediately.
- One glance at their healthy-looking and cheerful toddler playing in the corner - despite a bit of a cough, a few snuffles and some pale spots on the trunk - is enough to make this diagnosis highly improbable.
Synonyms
snuffle
1. 1.1usually the snufflesinformal A cold or other infection that causes sniffing.
  〈非正式〉（因感冒或其他感染导致的）鼻塞
  he went down with the snuffles
  他吸着鼻子下楼了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If you or me gets it (which we all have done) we might get a snuffle.
  The baby was also quite irritable and prone to colic, poor sleep and frequent fevers with snuffles.
  It is fatally simplistic to compare their survival figures, excellent though they are, with those of a small hospital in the suburbs that treats mainly children with snuffles and chest infections.
  Winter snuffles are putting the squeeze on the region's blood stocks.
  From April on, one in every four Americans suffers from the sneezes, snuffles and itchiness of hay fever - the catch-all term for a range of allergic diseases, the most common of which is allergic rhinitis.
  I'm about three weeks overdue for my monthly snuffles, I reckon.

Derivatives

snuffler

noun

I find snufflers to be some of the most annoying, rude, and disgusting people in the world.
Example sentencesExamples
- So, if you're a seasonal snuffler you'll be glad to hear about the world's first anti-allergen air conditioner.
- That's unless, of course, you're one of the snufflers on the tube suffering from hay fever.

snuffly

adjectivesnuffliest, snufflier

Are we talking about the little furry things with snuffly snouts and sharp claws, very bad eyesight, those fellows?
Example sentencesExamples
- Now my nose appears to have mellowed out, but I'm still all achy and snuffly.
- And don't even get me started on my snuffly nose.
- I'm now very snuffly and very miserable and staying at home today.
- I had picked up some sort of cold/hay fever thing, leaving me feeling feeble and snuffly.

Origin

Late 16th century: probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen; compare with snuff² and snivel.

Rhymes

duffel, kerfuffle, muffle, ruffle, scuffle, shuffle, truffle

Definition of snuffle in US English:

snuffle

verbˈsnəfəlˈsnəfəl

[no object]

1Breathe noisily through the nose due to a cold or crying.
（因感冒、哭泣而）呼哧呼哧地呼吸
Alice was weeping quietly, snuffling a little
艾丽丝静静地啜泣，抽抽鼻子。
Example sentencesExamples
- I won't be any good if I keep snuffling and sneezing and feeling worse.
- I snuffled, and leant against his warm body, comforted a little by his arm, which was around me waist, his hand resting on my stomach.
- Everyone's snuffling, everyone's hot, everyone wants nothing more than to repose on the sofa and have prepackaged entertainment piped down our eyeballs.
- She lay facing the wall, snuffling quietly, tousling her kitty's head.
- He stopped trying to pull away and snuffled quietly.
- Unwilling to say too much in case the boy, fading from sobs to snuffling, was listening, Al rolled his eyes.
- Everyone nodded at that, and Tiffany snuffled miserably.
- Another tear replaced the first, and another, then another and another, until I was snuffling, low whines coming from my throat.
- The girl was behind me, snuffling, almost completely submersed in the wardrobe.
- He stood there, shaking violently, then dropped to his knees and snuffled and choked uncontrollably; weeping.
- Last time it was that ‘When She Loved Me’ song, which had half the audience snuffling; this time it's the last four minutes.
- My mother and I watched the film in the early-evening gloom, snuffling, our noses emptying steadily into our Kleenexes.
- I drew him closer to me, rocking him slightly as he snuffled and snored.
- When I got up to my room, my head was spinning as I snuffled into a handkerchief.
- Elliot still was snuffling in his punctured sleep.
- Carrie was sitting at the kitchen table, crying, and snuffling and blowing her nose.
- While the appellant testified the complainant had been snuffling, she testified she was crying because he had intimidated her to the point of exhaustion, frustration and fear.
- Even unfortunate hay-fever sufferers bravely get in on the action, sniffling and snuffling under the branches behind the haphazard protection of white masks.
Synonyms
inhale, snuffle, breathe in, snuff, snuff up
1. 1.1 (especially of an animal) make repeated sniffing sounds as though smelling at something.
  （尤指动物像嗅东西般）反复喷鼻；发出呼哧呼哧的鼻息声
  the collie snuffled around his boots
  那只柯利牧羊犬绕着他的靴子呼哧呼哧地嗅个不停。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The dog buried his nose up to his ears in the cotton fabric, huffing and snuffling as he drank in the scent.
  Then I could hear one thing more: the Dog was snuffling.
  I lay with my arms wrapped tightly around my chest, listening to the shack moving in the wind, and animals snuffling outside.
  They whimpered and whined as they raised their noses to the air and snuffled at the smell that drifted into the clean air.
  They snorted and snuffled, hackles raised, dancing sideways, eyeing each other.
  The gelding snuffled at Thorn for a moment, the girl allowing a half-smile.
  Glory nickered and bobbed his head in way of greeting, before stretching his nose to snuffle my face.
  The bear is snuffling and snorting and looking around the picnic table for more food.
  He started snuffling in the grass and scratching at a few things.
  She arched and snuffled at me, big brown eyes watching me closely.
  Dust kicked up as the dragon sniffed and snuffled around, searching for their scent.
  Anyhow, ten this morning he heard the radio click on then came snuffling at the bottom of the duvet to get me up and out of bed.
  The Arabian came up to the paddock rail and snuffled at him.
  When the first birds woke I pretended to sleep, wrapped tightly, wind and animals snuffling outside.
  He crawled on his hands and knees over to Michael, afraid that the warhorse wouldn't let him near, but the grey snuffled at his hair and backed carefully away.
  A few moments later, I felt a cold, wet nose snuffling in the palm of my hand.
  I could see something snuffling in the dark, I could hear the breathing but I didn't know what it was, didn't even know how I'd gotten here.
  The horse snuffled at his neck, but the boy continued to cry.
  It gently placed its right paw in the crook of my arm and snuffled its wet nose in my ear.
  The next morning they wake up and go around the whole farm snuffling at the earth, rolling in the dew, eating the grass and so on, overwhelmed with excitement that it is all theirs.

nounˈsnəfəlˈsnəfəl

1A sniff or sniffing sound.
用力吸气；吸气声
a silence broken only by the faint snuffles of the dogs
只有微弱的狗的吸鼻声才时而打破的沉寂。
Example sentencesExamples
- Then my ears perked up as I heard an unmistakable snuffle.
- The crying stopped, muffled by a snuffle, hands swiping away tears, throat unclogging in a cough.
- Okay, so my neighbour may have heard the faintest of snuffles coming from the vague direction of my garden chair as he rattled and coughed his way into his shed in an embarrassed, but valiant, attempt to pretend he hadn't actually seen me.
- It was so close that she could hear its hot breath escaping in snuffles and wheezes from its fleshy black nose and blood-red mouth.
- Which was very nice, but the moment was broken by the snuffles coming from the cloud of blonde hair to my right.
- Little whimpers and snuffles started to come out of the girl's mouth.
- Dolly has discovered that the little West Highland puppy next door is willing to exchange cautious sniffs and snuffles under the fence and I think she's quite taken with the little mite.
- However, I took the risk of putting a hand close to a yowling muzzle and was greeted with a cold nose and a non-committal snuffle before the full-on baying started again.
- I really missed hearing his little snuffles in the night; spent most of the night awake straining to hear him breathing over the monitor.
- Deer cropped the springy turf beside us, so close we could hear every snuffle and chomp.
- Within a few moments, a wet nose poked itself out from the tablecloth, sniffed at the offered morsel for a few moments, and giving a snuffle of disdain, withdrew itself immediately.
- One glance at their healthy-looking and cheerful toddler playing in the corner - despite a bit of a cough, a few snuffles and some pale spots on the trunk - is enough to make this diagnosis highly improbable.
- No sobs, no snuffles, just tears sliding down my pale cheeks.
Synonyms
snuffle
1. 1.1usually the snufflesinformal A cold or other infection that causes sniffing.
  〈非正式〉（因感冒或其他感染导致的）鼻塞
  he went down with the snuffles
  他吸着鼻子下楼了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  If you or me gets it (which we all have done) we might get a snuffle.
  It is fatally simplistic to compare their survival figures, excellent though they are, with those of a small hospital in the suburbs that treats mainly children with snuffles and chest infections.
  I'm about three weeks overdue for my monthly snuffles, I reckon.
  Winter snuffles are putting the squeeze on the region's blood stocks.
  From April on, one in every four Americans suffers from the sneezes, snuffles and itchiness of hay fever - the catch-all term for a range of allergic diseases, the most common of which is allergic rhinitis.
  The baby was also quite irritable and prone to colic, poor sleep and frequent fevers with snuffles.

Origin

Late 16th century: probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen; compare with snuff and snivel.

词汇	snuffle
释义	Definition of snuffle in English: snuffle verb ˈsnʌf(ə)lˈsnəfəl [no object] 1Breathe noisily through the nose due to a cold or crying. （因感冒、哭泣而）呼哧呼哧地呼吸 Alice was weeping quietly, snuffling a little 艾丽丝静静地啜泣，抽抽鼻子。 Example sentencesExamples Everyone nodded at that, and Tiffany snuffled miserably. Everyone's snuffling, everyone's hot, everyone wants nothing more than to repose on the sofa and have prepackaged entertainment piped down our eyeballs. My mother and I watched the film in the early-evening gloom, snuffling, our noses emptying steadily into our Kleenexes. I won't be any good if I keep snuffling and sneezing and feeling worse. Last time it was that ‘When She Loved Me’ song, which had half the audience snuffling; this time it's the last four minutes. Another tear replaced the first, and another, then another and another, until I was snuffling, low whines coming from my throat. While the appellant testified the complainant had been snuffling, she testified she was crying because he had intimidated her to the point of exhaustion, frustration and fear. Unwilling to say too much in case the boy, fading from sobs to snuffling, was listening, Al rolled his eyes. I drew him closer to me, rocking him slightly as he snuffled and snored. Elliot still was snuffling in his punctured sleep. The girl was behind me, snuffling, almost completely submersed in the wardrobe. He stood there, shaking violently, then dropped to his knees and snuffled and choked uncontrollably; weeping. Even unfortunate hay-fever sufferers bravely get in on the action, sniffling and snuffling under the branches behind the haphazard protection of white masks. He stopped trying to pull away and snuffled quietly. She lay facing the wall, snuffling quietly, tousling her kitty's head. When I got up to my room, my head was spinning as I snuffled into a handkerchief. I snuffled, and leant against his warm body, comforted a little by his arm, which was around me waist, his hand resting on my stomach. Carrie was sitting at the kitchen table, crying, and snuffling and blowing her nose. Synonyms inhale, snuffle, breathe in, snuff, snuff up 1.1 (especially of an animal) make repeated sniffing sounds as though smelling at something. （尤指动物像嗅东西般）反复喷鼻；发出呼哧呼哧的鼻息声 the collie snuffled around his boots 那只柯利牧羊犬绕着他的靴子呼哧呼哧地嗅个不停。 Example sentencesExamples The next morning they wake up and go around the whole farm snuffling at the earth, rolling in the dew, eating the grass and so on, overwhelmed with excitement that it is all theirs. The gelding snuffled at Thorn for a moment, the girl allowing a half-smile. Then I could hear one thing more: the Dog was snuffling. I lay with my arms wrapped tightly around my chest, listening to the shack moving in the wind, and animals snuffling outside. They whimpered and whined as they raised their noses to the air and snuffled at the smell that drifted into the clean air. It gently placed its right paw in the crook of my arm and snuffled its wet nose in my ear. The horse snuffled at his neck, but the boy continued to cry. Glory nickered and bobbed his head in way of greeting, before stretching his nose to snuffle my face. A few moments later, I felt a cold, wet nose snuffling in the palm of my hand. The dog buried his nose up to his ears in the cotton fabric, huffing and snuffling as he drank in the scent. He started snuffling in the grass and scratching at a few things. The bear is snuffling and snorting and looking around the picnic table for more food. The Arabian came up to the paddock rail and snuffled at him. Dust kicked up as the dragon sniffed and snuffled around, searching for their scent. They snorted and snuffled, hackles raised, dancing sideways, eyeing each other. I could see something snuffling in the dark, I could hear the breathing but I didn't know what it was, didn't even know how I'd gotten here. When the first birds woke I pretended to sleep, wrapped tightly, wind and animals snuffling outside. He crawled on his hands and knees over to Michael, afraid that the warhorse wouldn't let him near, but the grey snuffled at his hair and backed carefully away. Anyhow, ten this morning he heard the radio click on then came snuffling at the bottom of the duvet to get me up and out of bed. She arched and snuffled at me, big brown eyes watching me closely. noun ˈsnʌf(ə)lˈsnəfəl 1A sniff or sniffing sound. 用力吸气；吸气声 a silence broken only by the faint snuffles of the dogs 只有微弱的狗的吸鼻声才时而打破的沉寂。 Example sentencesExamples Then my ears perked up as I heard an unmistakable snuffle. Dolly has discovered that the little West Highland puppy next door is willing to exchange cautious sniffs and snuffles under the fence and I think she's quite taken with the little mite. I really missed hearing his little snuffles in the night; spent most of the night awake straining to hear him breathing over the monitor. Which was very nice, but the moment was broken by the snuffles coming from the cloud of blonde hair to my right. Deer cropped the springy turf beside us, so close we could hear every snuffle and chomp. However, I took the risk of putting a hand close to a yowling muzzle and was greeted with a cold nose and a non-committal snuffle before the full-on baying started again. The crying stopped, muffled by a snuffle, hands swiping away tears, throat unclogging in a cough. It was so close that she could hear its hot breath escaping in snuffles and wheezes from its fleshy black nose and blood-red mouth. No sobs, no snuffles, just tears sliding down my pale cheeks. Okay, so my neighbour may have heard the faintest of snuffles coming from the vague direction of my garden chair as he rattled and coughed his way into his shed in an embarrassed, but valiant, attempt to pretend he hadn't actually seen me. Little whimpers and snuffles started to come out of the girl's mouth. Within a few moments, a wet nose poked itself out from the tablecloth, sniffed at the offered morsel for a few moments, and giving a snuffle of disdain, withdrew itself immediately. One glance at their healthy-looking and cheerful toddler playing in the corner - despite a bit of a cough, a few snuffles and some pale spots on the trunk - is enough to make this diagnosis highly improbable. Synonyms snuffle 1.1usually the snufflesinformal A cold or other infection that causes sniffing. 〈非正式〉（因感冒或其他感染导致的）鼻塞 he went down with the snuffles 他吸着鼻子下楼了。 Example sentencesExamples If you or me gets it (which we all have done) we might get a snuffle. The baby was also quite irritable and prone to colic, poor sleep and frequent fevers with snuffles. It is fatally simplistic to compare their survival figures, excellent though they are, with those of a small hospital in the suburbs that treats mainly children with snuffles and chest infections. Winter snuffles are putting the squeeze on the region's blood stocks. From April on, one in every four Americans suffers from the sneezes, snuffles and itchiness of hay fever - the catch-all term for a range of allergic diseases, the most common of which is allergic rhinitis. I'm about three weeks overdue for my monthly snuffles, I reckon. Derivatives snuffler noun I find snufflers to be some of the most annoying, rude, and disgusting people in the world. Example sentencesExamples So, if you're a seasonal snuffler you'll be glad to hear about the world's first anti-allergen air conditioner. That's unless, of course, you're one of the snufflers on the tube suffering from hay fever. snuffly adjectivesnuffliest, snufflier Are we talking about the little furry things with snuffly snouts and sharp claws, very bad eyesight, those fellows? Example sentencesExamples Now my nose appears to have mellowed out, but I'm still all achy and snuffly. And don't even get me started on my snuffly nose. I'm now very snuffly and very miserable and staying at home today. I had picked up some sort of cold/hay fever thing, leaving me feeling feeble and snuffly. Origin Late 16th century: probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen; compare with snuff² and snivel. Rhymes duffel, kerfuffle, muffle, ruffle, scuffle, shuffle, truffle Definition of snuffle in US English: snuffle verbˈsnəfəlˈsnəfəl [no object] 1Breathe noisily through the nose due to a cold or crying. （因感冒、哭泣而）呼哧呼哧地呼吸 Alice was weeping quietly, snuffling a little 艾丽丝静静地啜泣，抽抽鼻子。 Example sentencesExamples I won't be any good if I keep snuffling and sneezing and feeling worse. I snuffled, and leant against his warm body, comforted a little by his arm, which was around me waist, his hand resting on my stomach. Everyone's snuffling, everyone's hot, everyone wants nothing more than to repose on the sofa and have prepackaged entertainment piped down our eyeballs. She lay facing the wall, snuffling quietly, tousling her kitty's head. He stopped trying to pull away and snuffled quietly. Unwilling to say too much in case the boy, fading from sobs to snuffling, was listening, Al rolled his eyes. Everyone nodded at that, and Tiffany snuffled miserably. Another tear replaced the first, and another, then another and another, until I was snuffling, low whines coming from my throat. The girl was behind me, snuffling, almost completely submersed in the wardrobe. He stood there, shaking violently, then dropped to his knees and snuffled and choked uncontrollably; weeping. Last time it was that ‘When She Loved Me’ song, which had half the audience snuffling; this time it's the last four minutes. My mother and I watched the film in the early-evening gloom, snuffling, our noses emptying steadily into our Kleenexes. I drew him closer to me, rocking him slightly as he snuffled and snored. When I got up to my room, my head was spinning as I snuffled into a handkerchief. Elliot still was snuffling in his punctured sleep. Carrie was sitting at the kitchen table, crying, and snuffling and blowing her nose. While the appellant testified the complainant had been snuffling, she testified she was crying because he had intimidated her to the point of exhaustion, frustration and fear. Even unfortunate hay-fever sufferers bravely get in on the action, sniffling and snuffling under the branches behind the haphazard protection of white masks. Synonyms inhale, snuffle, breathe in, snuff, snuff up 1.1 (especially of an animal) make repeated sniffing sounds as though smelling at something. （尤指动物像嗅东西般）反复喷鼻；发出呼哧呼哧的鼻息声 the collie snuffled around his boots 那只柯利牧羊犬绕着他的靴子呼哧呼哧地嗅个不停。 Example sentencesExamples The dog buried his nose up to his ears in the cotton fabric, huffing and snuffling as he drank in the scent. Then I could hear one thing more: the Dog was snuffling. I lay with my arms wrapped tightly around my chest, listening to the shack moving in the wind, and animals snuffling outside. They whimpered and whined as they raised their noses to the air and snuffled at the smell that drifted into the clean air. They snorted and snuffled, hackles raised, dancing sideways, eyeing each other. The gelding snuffled at Thorn for a moment, the girl allowing a half-smile. Glory nickered and bobbed his head in way of greeting, before stretching his nose to snuffle my face. The bear is snuffling and snorting and looking around the picnic table for more food. He started snuffling in the grass and scratching at a few things. She arched and snuffled at me, big brown eyes watching me closely. Dust kicked up as the dragon sniffed and snuffled around, searching for their scent. Anyhow, ten this morning he heard the radio click on then came snuffling at the bottom of the duvet to get me up and out of bed. The Arabian came up to the paddock rail and snuffled at him. When the first birds woke I pretended to sleep, wrapped tightly, wind and animals snuffling outside. He crawled on his hands and knees over to Michael, afraid that the warhorse wouldn't let him near, but the grey snuffled at his hair and backed carefully away. A few moments later, I felt a cold, wet nose snuffling in the palm of my hand. I could see something snuffling in the dark, I could hear the breathing but I didn't know what it was, didn't even know how I'd gotten here. The horse snuffled at his neck, but the boy continued to cry. It gently placed its right paw in the crook of my arm and snuffled its wet nose in my ear. The next morning they wake up and go around the whole farm snuffling at the earth, rolling in the dew, eating the grass and so on, overwhelmed with excitement that it is all theirs. nounˈsnəfəlˈsnəfəl 1A sniff or sniffing sound. 用力吸气；吸气声 a silence broken only by the faint snuffles of the dogs 只有微弱的狗的吸鼻声才时而打破的沉寂。 Example sentencesExamples Then my ears perked up as I heard an unmistakable snuffle. The crying stopped, muffled by a snuffle, hands swiping away tears, throat unclogging in a cough. Okay, so my neighbour may have heard the faintest of snuffles coming from the vague direction of my garden chair as he rattled and coughed his way into his shed in an embarrassed, but valiant, attempt to pretend he hadn't actually seen me. It was so close that she could hear its hot breath escaping in snuffles and wheezes from its fleshy black nose and blood-red mouth. Which was very nice, but the moment was broken by the snuffles coming from the cloud of blonde hair to my right. Little whimpers and snuffles started to come out of the girl's mouth. Dolly has discovered that the little West Highland puppy next door is willing to exchange cautious sniffs and snuffles under the fence and I think she's quite taken with the little mite. However, I took the risk of putting a hand close to a yowling muzzle and was greeted with a cold nose and a non-committal snuffle before the full-on baying started again. I really missed hearing his little snuffles in the night; spent most of the night awake straining to hear him breathing over the monitor. Deer cropped the springy turf beside us, so close we could hear every snuffle and chomp. Within a few moments, a wet nose poked itself out from the tablecloth, sniffed at the offered morsel for a few moments, and giving a snuffle of disdain, withdrew itself immediately. One glance at their healthy-looking and cheerful toddler playing in the corner - despite a bit of a cough, a few snuffles and some pale spots on the trunk - is enough to make this diagnosis highly improbable. No sobs, no snuffles, just tears sliding down my pale cheeks. Synonyms snuffle 1.1usually the snufflesinformal A cold or other infection that causes sniffing. 〈非正式〉（因感冒或其他感染导致的）鼻塞 he went down with the snuffles 他吸着鼻子下楼了。 Example sentencesExamples If you or me gets it (which we all have done) we might get a snuffle. It is fatally simplistic to compare their survival figures, excellent though they are, with those of a small hospital in the suburbs that treats mainly children with snuffles and chest infections. I'm about three weeks overdue for my monthly snuffles, I reckon. Winter snuffles are putting the squeeze on the region's blood stocks. From April on, one in every four Americans suffers from the sneezes, snuffles and itchiness of hay fever - the catch-all term for a range of allergic diseases, the most common of which is allergic rhinitis. The baby was also quite irritable and prone to colic, poor sleep and frequent fevers with snuffles. Origin Late 16th century: probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen; compare with snuff and snivel.
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