snuffle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.
动词 v.
  1. To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly. intransitive
  2. To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound. intransitive
    — One clad in purple / Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme […] / Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.

词形变化

snuffles present,singular,third-person snuffling participle,present snuffled participle,past snuffled past snuffles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
snuffler snuffly
相关词
sniffle snivel

词源

词源 1
Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff + -le. Compare also Old English snofl (“snot, nasal mucus”), which might not have survived into Middle English.
词源 2
Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff + -le. Compare also Old English snofl (“snot, nasal mucus”), which might not have survived into Middle English.
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