sniffle in English
- sniffle⇄expr. the sniffles,
a. a slight cold in the head; stuffy condition of the nose caused by a cold or hay fever.
Ex. The President ... has a slight case of the sniffles (New York Times).
b. a fit of sniffling; tendency to sniffle. - sniffle⇄noun sniffler.
- sniffle⇄noun the act or sound of sniffling; loud sniff.
- sniffle⇄sniffle, verb, -fled,-fling,noun.
- sniffle⇄v.i. 1. to sniff again and again as one does from a cold in the head.
Ex. The child stopped crying but kept on sniffling.
2. to breathe audibly through a partly clogged nose.