Usually means: Inhaling air through a runny nose.
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  1. sniffle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sniffle: Merriam-Webster
  3. sniffle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sniffle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sniffle: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sniffle: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sniffle, sniffle: Wordnik
  8. sniffle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sniffle: Wiktionary
  10. sniffle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sniffle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sniffle: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sniffle, the sniffle: Dictionary.com
  14. sniffle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. sniffle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Sniffle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Sniffle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. sniffle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. sniffle: Rhymezone
  20. Sniffle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. sniffle: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sniffle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sniffle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. sniffle: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. sniffle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sniffle: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SNIFFLE: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See sniffled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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verb:  (intransitive) To make a whimpering or sniffing sound when breathing, because of a runny nose.
verb:  (transitive) To utter with a whimpering or sniffing sound.
noun:  The act, or the sound of sniffling; the condition of having a runny or wet nose, as from a cold or allergies.

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