SNIFF
\snˈɪf], \snˈɪf], \s_n_ˈɪ_f]\
Definitions of SNIFF
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
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To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
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To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.
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The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.
By Oddity Software
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To draw in the breath audibly through the nose, often as an expression of contempt.
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To smell or scent; as, to sniff danger.
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The act of smelling; an audible, often scornful, drawing in of the breath through the nose.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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To draw in with the breath through the nose.
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To snuff or draw in air sharply through the nose: to snuff: to scent.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Perception by the nose; what is snuffed in.
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To draw in with the breath; to smell.
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To draw air audibly up the nose.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.