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Snift v. i. (past & past part. snifted; pres. part. snifting)

To snort. (Obs.) "Resentment expressed by snifting."

To sniff; to snuff; to smell. "It now appears that they were still snifing and hankering after their old quarters."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Snift" Quotes from Famous Books

... openly praised, he would reject the application as a gross offence. It appeareth to me that even to praise one's self, although it be shameful, is less shameful than to throw a burning coal into the incense-box that another doth hold to waft before us, and then to snift and simper over it, with maidenly, wishful coyness, as if forsooth one had no hand ...

— Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare • Walter Savage Landor

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