snuffle

🇺🇸 /ˈsnʌfl/ 🇬🇧 /ˈsnʌfl/
詞頻
難度
標籤 RARE
verb
R

To make a sound while breathing through your nose because of a cold or crying.

I could hear the child snuffling in her sleep.

我能聽到孩子睡覺時的抽鼻子聲。

R

For an animal, to breathe noisily through its nose while smelling something.

The dog was snuffling around in the bushes.

狗在灌木叢中嗅來嗅去。

noun
R

The sound or action of breathing noisily through the nose.

The silence was broken only by the snuffles of the dogs.

寂靜被狗的哼哼聲打破了。

translation

v. 抽鼻子, 嗅聞
n. 鼻息聲

詞形變化

3rd Present snuffles
Past snuffled
Perfect snuffled
Progressive snuffling
Plural snuffles