Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a capful of wind.
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- noun a person who
sniffles
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a person who breathes audibly through a congested nose
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Examples
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A box of Kleenex aloe soothes the sniffler now no more red nose navigate recent archive friends userinfo about hradzka
fic: "Seven Sunday Mother-Daughter Mornings" (SCC) hradzka 2009
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Worked on book-y stuff in between making porridge and reading to the little sniffler and doing chores.
September 21st, 2006 wheatland_press 2006
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Loser of pet toads, sniffler, and klutz extraordinaire, Harry's Gryffindor classmate could be done in by his own sad Neville-ness.
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Loser of pet toads, sniffler, and klutz extraordinaire, Harry's Gryffindor classmate could be done in by his own sad Neville-ness.
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• The New York Times found the only legal Mexican immigrant in San Antonio (kidding!) to create a tripartite sniffler about three sisters: Racquel (the legal one), Veronica (who lives “furtively”) and Irma (who moved home to Mexico).
VDARE.com Reads Illegal Alien Sob Stories so You Don’t Have to 2006
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• The New York Times found the only legal Mexican immigrant in San Antonio (kidding!) to create a tripartite sniffler about three sisters: Racquel (the legal one), Veronica (who lives “furtively”) and Irma (who moved home to Mexico).
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » VDARE.com Reads Illegal Alien Sob Stories so You Don’t Have to 2006
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• The New York Times found the only legal Mexican immigrant in San Antonio (kidding!) to create a tripartite sniffler about three sisters: Racquel (the legal one), Veronica (who lives “furtively”) and Irma (who moved home to Mexico).
VDARE.com Reads Illegal Alien Sob Stories so You Don’t Have to 2006
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Shelden is even sniffler about Crick, criticizing him for pedantry and impersonality, and pillorying his laborious method of marshaling often contradictory sources and refusing to adjudicate between them.
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As the wan mother watched the end of the transaction which left the sniffler now quite consoled, in possession of the modest coin, she said naïvely –
The Convert 1907
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As the wan mother watched the end of the transaction which left the sniffler now quite consoled, in possession of the modest coin, she said naïvely --
The Convert Elizabeth Robins 1907
hernesheir commented on the word sniffler
Nautical, "a capful of wind". --Century Dictionary
May 8, 2011