snuffle

Probably from Low German and Dutch snuffelen (“to snuffle”), equivalent to snuff +‎ -le.

• IPA^(key): /snʌfəl/
• Rhymes: -ʌfəl

snuffle (third-person singular simple present snuffles, present participle snuffling, simple past and past participle snuffled)

1. (intransitive) To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
2. (intransitive) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
   • Dryden

     One clad in purple / Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme […] / Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.

• snuffly

snuffle (plural snuffles)

1. An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly