Definition of "snuffle"

snuffle

/snʌfəl/

verb
third-person singular simple present snuffles, present participle snuffling, simple past and past participle snuffled
1. (intransitive) To sniff or smell with the nose loudly and audibly.
2. (intransitive) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
  Quotations
  One clad in purple / Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme […] / Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.
  1693, Decimus Junius Juvenalis, John Dryden, transl., “[The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis.] The First Satyr”, in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis. Translated into English Verse. […] Together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus. […], London: Printed for Jacob Tonson […]
noun
plural snuffles
1. An act of snuffling; sniffing loudly.