snuffle

IPA: snˈʌfʌɫ

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

Examples of "snuffle" in Sentences

He heard a snuffle behind him -- a half-choking gasp or cough.
He heard a kind of snuffle, then a buffalo just brushed him as it went past.
I open up my nostril slits and wetly snuffle the air for the faint stink of friends.
A cabayo made that stuttering snuffle, and someone laughed, the sound carrying in the night.
Again came the snuffle and cough, and outlined between two jagged rocks not a score of feet away he made out the gray head of a wolf.
The intercoms sold to let parents listen in to every snuffle, sob and cry operate in the same frequency band as the wireless networks more and more of us are installing and can generate so much interference that they make them unusable.
(N.B. -- This ejaculation denotes the kind of snuffle which lent peculiar energy to the dicta of Mr. Culpepper.) "Ring the bell, then, and summon the landlord," said, very pertinently, one of the three disputants upon the character of Wilkes.
"loanan" -- what they call a "boreen" in other parts of Ireland -- the other man, who was a bit of a wag, would put his hand to his nose, and make a motion of putting it aside, as if there was not sufficient room for two such organs, and call out with a kind of snuffle: "Pass, Brian!"