sniffle
Americanverb (used without object)
noun
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an act or sound of sniffling.
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(the) sniffles, a condition, as a cold, marked by sniffling.
This draft is giving me the sniffles.
verb
noun
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Conjugated Forms
Present
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has sniffledperfect 3rd person singular
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have sniffledperfect
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am snifflingprogressive 1st person singular
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have been snifflingperfect progressive
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is snifflingprogressive 3rd person singular
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snifflingparticiple
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are snifflingprogressive
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snifflessingular 3rd person
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has been snifflingperfect progressive 3rd person singular
Past
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had sniffledperfect
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were snifflingprogressive plural
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had been snifflingperfect progressive
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sniffledparticiple
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was snifflingprogressive singular
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sniffledsimple
Future
Etymology
Origin of sniffle
Example Sentences
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The competency of the witness thus appearing, the foreman proceeded: "Now, Mr. Sniffle, do you, under the solemn sanction of an oath, undertake to say that my son Josiah was engaged in that game?"
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
Sam Sniffle wor a karacter in his way, he seemed to have a bit ov a smatterin' o' iverything, but what he professed to know th' mooast abaat wor dogs an rats.
From Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley by Hartley, John
Here we were interrupted by the cry of another Rancey Sniffle.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
"Yas, in course, if I swar to a lie, they'll send me to the penitentiary, and then I'll go to hell afterwards," replied Mr. Sniffle.
From Something of Men I Have Known With Some Papers of a General Nature, Political, Historical, and Retrospective by Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing)
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