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▪ I. sniffle, n.1|ˈsnɪf(ə)l|
[f. sniffle v.]
1. the sniffles, the snuffles. Also U.S. slang, a fit of low spirits.
1825Jamieson Suppl., Sniffles, that difficulty of breathing through the nostrils, which is caused by cold in the head. 1903A. Adams Log Cowboy xviii. 279, I hope you won't get the sniffles and tell any [sc. gloomy tales].
2. An act of sniffling; a slight snivel or snuffle.
1880Meredith Trag. Com. (1881) 195 ‘You have been a little weak,’ the phantom said to her, and she acquiesced with a soft sniffle. 1885Martineau Types Eth. Th. (1886) II. i. v. 174 A curve in the nose, a colour of the hair, a sniffle in the voice.
▪ II. ˈsniffle, n.2 Weaving.
[Origin obscure.]
A form of ravel or separator.
1805J. Austin in Trans. Soc. Arts XXIII. 242 An universal ravel or sniffle, useful at the beaming of all kinds of webs. This machine is of itself complete, and will beam from the coarsest to the finest web.
▪ III. sniffle, v.|ˈsnɪf(ə)l|
Also 9 dial. snifle.
[Imitative: cf. G. (now dial.) schniffeln, † schnifeln, and see snivel v., snuffle v.]
intr. To snivel or snuffle slightly; to sniff. Also (with that and compl.), to say with a sniffle.
The vbl. n. and ppl. a. are recorded much earlier.
1819Scott Leg. Montrose xiv, So saying, and..sniffling a little to swallow his grief, he turned from the heart-rending spectacle. 1846Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1853 II. 228/2 He does not sniffle: to my ears he speaks plain English. 1883L. A. Lambert Notes on Ingersoll vi. 57 And yet you sniffle that He killed art.
b. transf. Of a breeze. (Cf. next.)
1885J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 143 About nine it began to sniffle and blow a bit. |