- an act or the sound of snuffling
- The silence was broken only by the snuffles of the dogs.
- His breath came in snuffles.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen; compare with snuff ‘breathe in noisily’ and snivel.
Idioms
See snuffle in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryget, have, etc. the snuffles
- (informal) to get/have a cold
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