snuffling
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
“snuffling” is listed under Snuffle.
Snuf′fle intransitive verb [past tense & past participle Snuffled; present participle & verbal noun Snuffling.]
Origin: Freq. of snuff, v.i.; akin to LG. snuffeln, G. schnüffeln, D. snuffeln, Dan. snövle. Cf. Sniffle.
To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
One clad in purple Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme... Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.— John Dryden
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54