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Sniff   /snɪf/   Listen
verb
Sniff  v. t.  
1.
To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
2.
To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.


Sniff  v. i.  (past & past part. sniffed or snift; pres. part. sniffing)  To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt. "So ye grow squeamish, gods, and sniff at heaven."


noun
Sniff  n.  The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.





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"Sniff" Quotes from Famous Books



... it," Gerald answered; "I daren't use my hankey for fear Johnson's on the lookout somewhere unseen. I wish I'd thought of some other signal." Sniff! "No, nor I shouldn't want to now if I hadn't got not to. That's what's so rum. The moment I got down here and remembered what I'd said about the signal I began to have a cold and Thank goodness! ...
— The Enchanted Castle • E. Nesbit
... the cipher-key, wherewith we decipher the whole man! Some men wear an everlasting barren simper; in the smile of others lies a cold glitter as of ice: the fewest are able to laugh, what can be called laughing, but only sniff and titter and snigger from the throat outwards; or at best, produce some whiffling husky cachinnation, as if they were laughing through wool: of none such comes good. The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils; but his whole life is already ...
— Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History • Thomas Carlyle
... boys have an easy enough time," said Alexia, with a sniff, "and you are always grumbling about how hard it is, while I don't say a word, ...
— Five Little Peppers and their Friends • Margaret Sidney
... and wistaria, do not console him, and the voices of the politest people on earth jar sorely. He knows every soul in the club, has thoroughly talked out every subject of interest, and would give half a year's—oh, five years'—pay for one lung-filling breath of air that has life in it, one sniff of the haying grass, or half a mile of muddy London street where the muffin bell tinkles in the four o'clock fog. Then the big liner moves out across the staring blue of the bay. So-and-so and such-an-one, both friends, are going home ...
— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling
... nose goes sniff-snuff so funny!" laughed Flossie. "Rabbits eat a lot of cabbage," she said. "If I had something to eat now I would ...
— Bobbsey Twins in Washington • Laura Lee Hope


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