Sniff

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  • intransitive verb. undefined
  • intransitive verb. To inhale a short, audible breath through the nose, as in smelling something.
  • intransitive verb. To sniffle.
  • intransitive verb. To use the sense of smell, as in savoring or investigating.
  • intransitive verb. To regard something in a contemptuous or dismissive manner.
  • intransitive verb. To pry; snoop.
  • intransitive verb. To inhale forcibly through the nose.
  • intransitive verb. To smell, as in savoring or investigating.
  • intransitive verb. To perceive or detect by or as if by sniffing.
  • intransitive verb. To utter in a contemptuous or haughty manner.
  • noun. An instance or the sound of sniffing.
  • noun. Something sniffed or perceived by or as if by sniffing; a whiff.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To draw air through the nose in short audible inspirations, as an expression of scorn; snuff: often with at.
  • To draw in with the breath through the nose; smell of with an audible inhalation; snuff: as, to sniff the fragrance of a clover-field.
  • To perceive as by snuffing; smell; scent: as, to sniff danger.
  • To draw the breath through (the nose) in an unpleasantly audible manner.
  • noun. The act of sniffing; a single short audible inspiration through the nose.
  • noun. Perception of smell obtained by inhaling audibly; that which is taken by sniffing: as, a sniff of fresh air.
  • noun. The sound produced by passing the breath through the nose with a quick effort; a short, quick snuffle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing.
  • intransitive verb. To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
  • transitive verb. To draw in with the breath through the nose.
  • transitive verb. To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. An instance of sniffing.
  • noun. A quantity of something that is inhaled through the nose
  • noun. A brief perception
  • verb. To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as if to smell something.
  • verb. To say something while sniffing, for example in case of illness or unhappiness
  • verb. To perceive vaguely
  • verb. To be dismissive or contemptuous of something.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. inhale audibly through the nose
  • noun. sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose
  • verb. perceive by inhaling through the nose
  • Word Usage
    "Like me … * sniff sniff* … Maybe Santa will be nice to me …"
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    Form
    sniffed  sniffing  snift  
    Hypernym
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    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Biff  Cliff  Riff  biff  cliff  
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    sniffed  sniffing  sniffs