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# snuffling

«snuffling» in Mova's school dictionary: **Breathing noisily through the nose, as when you have a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (snuffle, snuffles, snuffled, snuffling — -ing form); adjective, noun (snuffling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Breathing noisily through the nose, as when you have a cold or are crying. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snuffling/#m1)

2) (of an animal) Sniffing about noisily, like a hedgehog or a pig looking for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snuffling/#m2)

3) (noun) The sound of this. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snuffling/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In stories snuffling tells you a child is crying quietly or has a cold, or a small animal like a dog, pig or hedgehog is searching about. In nature writing hedgehogs are «snuffling» in the hedge at night.

### examples

- The puppy was snuffling around the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snuffling/#x1)
- I heard a hedgehog snuffling in the leaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snuffling/#x2)
- She lay in bed snuffling with a cold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snuffling/#x3)
- The pig went snuffling through the mud for food. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snuffling/#x4)
- The little boy stopped crying and only kept snuffling. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snuffling/#x5)
- We could hear snuffling under the shed. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snuffling/#x6)
- Meanwhile the fox had met with a huge herd of pigs, snuffling about the roots of some trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snuffling/#x7)

### note

Regular verb: snuffle, snuffled. Similar: sniffling (a person with a cold or after crying), sniffing (smelling). «Snuffle» feels softer and more animal-like.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «snuffling» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/snuffling/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.