Meaning

1 senses
  1. The act, or the sound of sniffling; the condition of having a runny or wet nose, as from a cold or allergies.

    I sometimes have a sniffle during allergy season.

    всхли́пываниеvsxlípyvanije

More definitions
  • the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested)

Examples

13 sentences
  1. Tom has the sniffles.

    У Тома шмарклі. — deniko

  2. Tom is sniffling.

    Том сопить носом. — deniko

  3. Quit sniffling and blow your nose.

  4. Stop sniffling and blow your nose.

  5. I heard Tom sniffle.

    ruЯ слышал, как Том сопит. — odexed

Translations

2 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
act or sound:

Origin

From sniff + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare snivel.

From sniff + -le (frequentative suffix). Compare snivel.

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Forms

plural: sniffles
Singularsniffle
Pluralsniffles

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • the act of breathing heavily through the nose (as when the nose is congested):snufflesnivel

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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