snuffle
verb (used without object)
to draw air into the nose for the purpose of smelling something; snuff.
snuffler
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a word derived from
snuffle.
Example Sentences
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You know I never was a snuffler; but this sort of life makes one serious, if one has any reverence at all in one.
From Tom Brown at Oxford by Thomas Hughes
Henry and Robert Foster denounced their prospective father-in-law as a fortune-hunter, a snuffler, a hypocrite.
From Chronicles of Martin Hewitt by Arthur Morrison
Lord Thormanby and the Archdeacon were in the smoking room, so we pretended we'd come to look for Hilda's pocket snuffler.
From Lalage's Lovers by George A. Birmingham
"Here forsooth is dolorous doleful dirge—out on thee for sad and sorry snuffler!"
From The Geste of Duke Jocelyn by Jeffery Farnol
One of the proofs of his inventive genius was a mechanical snuffler that he had made of a shoe-polish tin.
From The Quest by Isaac Goldberg
