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Webster 1913 Edition

Snuffle

Snuf′fle

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Snuffled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Snuffling
.]
[Freq. of
snuff
, v.i.; akin to LG.
snuffeln
, G.
schnüffeln
, D.
snuffeln
, Dan.
snövle
. Cf.
Sniffle
.]
To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
One clad in purple
Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme . . .
Snuffling
at nose, and croaking in his throat.
Dryden.

Snuf′fle

,
Noun.
1.
The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.
This dread sovereign, Breath, in its passage, gave a snort or
snuffle
.
Coleridge.
2.
An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
3.
pl.
Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.
[Colloq.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Snuffle

SNUF'FLE

,
Verb.
I.
To speak through the nose; to breathe hard through the nose, or through the nose when obstructed. Some senseless Phillis, in a broken not, SnuffLing at nose.

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