snuffle
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/ˈsnʌfl/
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/ˈsnʌfl/
To make a sound while breathing through your nose because of a cold or crying.
I could hear the child snuffling in her sleep.
For an animal, to breathe noisily through its nose while smelling something.
The dog was snuffling around in the bushes.
The sound or action of breathing noisily through the nose.
The silence was broken only by the snuffles of the dogs.