Snuffle /(?)/

Snuf·fle

Snuffle

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Snuffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Snuffling

  1. 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.

Snuffle

n.
  1. The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.
    This dread sovereign, Breath, in its passage, gave a snort or snuffle.
  2. An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
  3. Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children. [Colloq.]