[f. SNUFFLE v.] The action of the verb, in various senses.
1580. Blundevil, Horsemanship, IV. iv. 3 b. Lowd snuffling in the nose, and casting out vapors at his nostrils.
1599. Dallam, in Early Voy. Levant (Hakluyt Soc.), 29. They made a great noyse with their snufflinge, and, in the ende, went Runing awaye.
1614–8. Latham, Falconry (1633), 138. As you shall see cause, first in the head by snufling or sniting, or any other signes.
1702. Baynard, Cold Baths, II. (1709), 383. To speak without snuffling is hardly genteel.
1822–7. Good, Study Med. (1829), I. 530. The coryza, or snuffling of old age, is precisely analogous to its ptyalism or drivelling.
1861. Bumstead, Ven. Dis. (1879), 747. The first indication … is the characteristic snuffling.
