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单词 snuffle
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snufflen.

/ˈsnʌf(ə)l/
Etymology: < snuffle v.
1. Surf or surge. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > foam or surf > [noun] > surf
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seegea1609
snuffle1630
surf1633
1630 J. Smith True Trav. 54 Such a snuffle of the Sea goeth on the shore, ten may better defend than fifty assault.
2. An (or the) act of snuffling.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > inhalation > [noun] > through nose
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sniftingc1430
snivellingc1430
snuffing1540
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snuff1822
sniftera1835
sniffling1836
snivel1847
sniffle1880
a1764 R. Lloyd Actor in Poet. Wks. (1774) I. 16/3 With shrug, wink, snuffle, and convulsive limb.
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas I. i. xii. 109 What is a prison above ground, after so brimstone a snuffle as thou hast had of the regions below?
1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful I. iii. 45 It was an intellectual nose... Its snuffle was consequential, and its sneeze oracular.
1865 S. Baring-Gould Bk. Were-wolves viii. 126 She hears the tramping of his approaching feet, and the snuffle of his breath.
3. plural. A stopped condition of the nose, through a cold in the head or otherwise, causing a snuffling sound in the act of respiration.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > common cold or catarrh
poseOE
rheuma1398
cold?a1425
snekec1440
refraidourc1450
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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
1770 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. I. 317 She has at present a little London cold, but her Grace says it is ‘only the snuffles’.
1784 M. Underwood Treat. Dis. Children 235 The lightest symptom..is that called the snuffles, or stoppage of the nose.
1845 C. Dickens Chimes iv. 139 The nose afflicted with that disordered action of its functions which is generally termed The Snuffles.
1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) II. xvii. 6 The snuffles in infancy are very characteristic.
4. A nasal tone in the voice.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > [noun] > speaking through the nose > nasal speech
snuffle1820
whang1875
1820 W. Scott Monastery I. v. 158 With a hypocritical snuffle, and a sly twinkle of his eye.
1830 H. Lee Mem. Manager I. ii. 61 His spectacles..being rather too small for him..increased his natural snuffle.
1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany i. 3 The monotonous whine and snuffle of the children in the National School as they read.
in combination.1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke xi. 94 Half-a-dozen broad~brimmed snuffle-nosed preachers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

snufflev.

/ˈsnʌf(ə)l/
Etymology: probably < Dutch and Flemish snuffelen (also †snoffelen ), = Frisian snuffelje , Low German snüffeln (whence German schnüffeln , schnuffeln ) in similar senses: see snuff v.2 and -le suffix.
I. intransitive.
1. To show dislike or disdain by snuffing; to sniff at a thing in contempt. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > think or behave contemptuously [verb (intransitive)] > express contempt by sniffing
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snuffle1583
sniff1837
1583 R. Greene Mamillia i. f. 36 The young colt, at the first breaking snuffles at the snaffle.
1600 N. Breton Strange Fortunes Two Princes in Wks. (1879) II. 12/2 The wicked wretch..in a great rage, snuffling at his cold entertainment.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxv. iv. 268 Making a speech on a time to his souldiors all armed, when they snuffled and became unruly.
1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) 165 I know nice noses will snuffel at this Oyl as a thing most detestable.
2. To draw air into the nostrils in order to smell something; to snuff or smell at a thing.
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the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [verb (intransitive)] > exercise sense of smell
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snokec1380
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snuffle1601
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snuft1820
snuzzle1861
1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Biijv I dream'd I wore a garland of greene willow. But snuffling low, I prickt me with a fether.
1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 12 Their cry soon reacht his ear, And he came snuffling toward them.
1825 W. Scott Talisman iii, in Tales Crusaders III. 47 The steeds..neighed and snuffled fondly around their masters.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. iii. 51 [The dog] went trotting about the room, and snuffling at Schloss's legs.
1889 H. R. Haggard Allan's Wife 278 The oxen..were very restless—they kept snuffling and blowing.
3. To speak through the nose; to have a nasal twang.Sometimes taken as indicating hypocrisy or canting.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak nasally
to speak through (also in) the (or one's) nose1598
twang1615
snafflea1635
snuffle1634
snoach1844
nasillate1859
snifter1880
1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xxiii. iv. 873 They cannot pronounce their words distinctly, but obscurely and snuffling.
a1640 J. Day & H. Chettle Blind-beggar (1659) sig. F1 There's an odde fellow snuffels i' the nose, that shows a motion about Bishopsgate.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote II. iii. viii. 242 Would not it have been better..to cut off half of their noses, even tho' they should snuffle in their speech..?
1756 Connoisseur No. 126. ⁋6 Snuffling through the nose with an harmonious twang.
1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xli. 374 You would have thought it was the Countess's own Roman nose through which she snuffled.
1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta I. 154 He snuffled in his holy talk like an honest Roundhead.
4. To draw up air or mucus through the nostrils in an audible or noisy manner.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > inhalation > inhale [verb (intransitive)] > through nose
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snoach1844
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Renifler, to snuffle, or snifter often.
1611 Tarlton's Jests (1866) 198 Who, falling upon his nose, broke it extremely, that ever after he snuffled in the head.
1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo Comical Wks. (1709) 435 He..was gaul'd and snuffled [Sp. con mataduras y muermo] because they had thrown Feathers into his Manger.
1835 Politeness & Gd.-breeding 53 Remember never to whisper, or snuffle and laugh.
a1855 C. Brontë Professor (1857) I. vii. 121 How he did snuffle, snort, and wheeze!
1898 Hutchinson's Arch. Surg. IX. 141 The child, a girl,..at the age of a month began to snuffle.
5. Of the wind: To blow in fitful gusts. Obsolete.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow fitfully
shrink1627
snuffle1633
winnow1801
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 24 In the after-noone it began to snuffle and blow.
1781 Lieut. Archer Let. 30 June in Naval Chron. (1804) 11 286 At eleven at night it began to snuffle, with a monstrous heavy appearance.
II. transitive.
6. To inhale, to clear, to search out or examine, by snuffing.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > inhalation > inhale [verb (transitive)] > through nose
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snuff1527
snuff1547
to breathe in1576
snuffle1599
whiff1635
snivel1668
sniff1796
the world > physical sensation > smell and odour > [verb (transitive)] > track or perceive using sense of smell
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asmellc1320
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resent1614
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to get (also take, pick up) the scent1723
to carry scent1753
find1827
snuffle1871
flair1919
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > find or discover [verb (transitive)] > detect > (as) by smelling
smellc1380
smell?1548
scent?1553
outsmella1563
nosea1637
to get (also take, pick up) the scent1723
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sniff1864
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1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 11/2 Mixe all these.., & snuffle heerof a little in your Nose in the Morninges.
1667 Third Advice in Second & Third Advice to Painter 24 She dry'd no tears..But only snufling her trunk Cartiluginous; From Scaleing-ladder she began a Story.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. xxii. 242 He snuffles all he snuffle can: ‘He scents the Jesuits' traces’.
7.
a. To utter, say, declare, etc., in a snuffling or nasal tone.
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the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > say in a particular manner [verb (transitive)] > nasally
snaffle1616
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nosea1643
twang1748
snifter1880
1641 Good Wish for Eng. (single sheet) Those That snuffle their unlearned zeale in prose.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. ix. 250 ‘I profess I do..,’ snuffled the corporal.
1837 T. Carlyle in London & Westm. Rev. Jan. 429 Even the old Marquis snuffles approval.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. vii. vi. 258 Seckendorf..snuffled into him suggestions of mercy.
1892 I. Zangwill Children of Ghetto I. 128 The scarecrow who shambled along snuffling ‘Old clo’.
b. Similarly with out or forth.
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1827 P. Cunningham Two Years New S. Wales II. xxviii. 209 On being questioned how he had existed, he snuffled out [etc.].
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy iii She..snuffled forth at the astonished boy, ‘Get out o' that, you dirty cur!’
1891 E. Gosse Gossip in Library iii. 33 A whining ballad snuffled out in the street at night by some unhappy minstrel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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