sniffle

1. 1.

   the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)

   Synonymssnufflesnivel

   Broaderbreathing

Other forms of sniffle

plural

sniffles·

past tense

sniffled·

present participle

sniffling·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sniffle

What does sniffle mean?

sniffle means "cry or whine with snuffling". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sniffle?

sniffle has 2 syllables: snif-fle. The stress falls on "snif". In IPA it is /ˈsnɪfəl/.

What is another word for sniffle?

Close synonyms include snivel, blubber, blub, snuffle, sniff. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sniffle a common word?

sniffle is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.