snuffle

1. 1.

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

   Synonymssnifflesnivel

   Broaderbreathing

Other forms of snuffle

plural

snuffles·

past tense

snuffled·

present participle

snuffling·

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 snuffle

What does snuffle mean?

snuffle means "sniff or smell inquiringly". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in snuffle?

snuffle has 2 syllables: snuf-fle. The stress falls on "fle".

What is another word for snuffle?

Close synonyms include snuff, snivel, snivel, sniffle, blubber. 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 snuffle a common word?

snuffle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.