snafflesn.
? Obsolete.
A form of catarrh affecting respiration; the snuffles.
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rheuma1398
cold?a1425
snekec1440
refraidourc1450
murr1451
gravedity1547
coldment1578
snorea1585
catarrh1588
coqueluche1611
gravediny1620
coryza1634
snurl1674
catch-cold1706
gravedo1706
common cold1713
coolth?1748
snuffles1770
snifters1808
influenza cold1811
snaffles1822
the sniffles1825
snuffiness1834
crying cold1843
flu1899
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 442 Whence in common language it is called emphatically the distemper, though vulgarly the snaffles, or rather snuffles, from the state of the nostrils.
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