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Sniff   /snɪf/   Listen
verb
Sniff  v. t.  
1.
To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
2.
To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.


Sniff  v. i.  (past & past part. sniffed or snift; pres. part. sniffing)  To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt. "So ye grow squeamish, gods, and sniff at heaven."


noun
Sniff  n.  The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.





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"Sniff" Quotes from Famous Books



... entirely assembled, however, a gaunt yellow hound pushed through the crowd, gave one sniff at the small child, and with a yelp of joy crouched at its feet. The baby embraced the hound in recognition, and the two moved toward the gate. Just outside the hound stopped to speak to an aristocratic St. Bernard who had ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various
... statement that such a policy as Home Rule had always led to the disintegration and destruction of empires. He rolled out the case of Austria, which had been preserved from ruin by Home Rule; and when there was a sniff from the Tory benches, Mr. Gladstone, in tones of thunder, referred to the speech of Lord Salisbury in 1885, when he was angling for the Irish vote, and when he pointed to Austria as perhaps supplying some indication ...
— Sketches In The House (1893) • T. P. O'Connor
... half-a-dozen of them fixed in their places, a sound reaches their ears which causes them suddenly to desist; for all three recognise it as coming from the throat of a jaguar! Not a loud roar, or scream, such as they heard when that lying dead first made its presence known, but a sort of sniff or snort, as when it was struggling, half-choked by the ponchos. Soon, however, as they stand listening, the snorting changes into a long low growl, ending in a gruff bark; as of a watch-dog awakened by some slight noise, for which he is not sure of its being worth his while to ...
— Gaspar the Gaucho - A Story of the Gran Chaco • Mayne Reid
... a real pig," Maggie remarked with a sniff. She was being trained for the bungalow fete, and she had suffered ...
— Joyce of the North Woods • Harriet T. Comstock
... it must have been one of those abandoned by the unfortunate vessels who had fled, but etiquette forbade us saying anything about it. Even had it been, another day would have seen it valueless to any one, for it was by no means otto of roses to sniff at now, while they had certainly salved it at the ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen


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