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Sniffle   /snˈɪfəl/   Listen
Sniffle

verb
1.
Cry or whine with snuffling.  Synonyms: blub, blubber, snivel, snuffle.
2.
Inhale audibly through the nose.  Synonym: sniff.






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"Sniffle" Quotes from Famous Books



... are all alike. Wire T. A. Buck, Junior, of the Featherloom Petticoat Company, New York. You'll find plenty of clean nightgowns in the left-hand tray of my trunk, covered with white tissue paper. Get a nurse that doesn't sniffle, or talk about the palace she nursed in last, where they treated her like a queen and waited on her hand and foot. For goodness' sake, put my switch where nothing will happen to it, and if I die and they run my picture in the Dry Goods Review ...
— Roast Beef, Medium • Edna Ferber

... back on him. He tried to make light of it afore folks; but with me, being a poor gal, he let himself out. I never told anybody this. I don't know why he told me; I don't know," continued Peggy with a sniffle, "why he wanted to make me unhappy too. But he made me promise that if he left me his fortune, I'd never, never—so help me God!—never share it with any man or woman that I loved. I didn't think it would be hard to keep that promise then, Mr. Hamlin, for I was very poor, ...
— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. X (of X) - America - II, Index • Various



Words linked to "Sniffle" :   sniffly, ventilation, breathe in, inhale, weep, inspire, external respiration, respiration, breathing, snuffle, cry



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