sniff

[sniff]

Smell that cake baking? No? Take a sniff. A sniff is when you take air in through your nose to smell something.

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To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.

Noun
sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose

Verb
inhale audibly through the nose; "the sick student was sniffling in the back row"

Verb
perceive by inhaling through the nose; "sniff the perfume"


v. t.
To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.

v. t.
To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.

v. t.
To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.

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


Sniff

Sniff , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sniffed or Snift; p. pr. & vb. n. Sniffing.] [OE. sneven; akin to snivel, snuff; cf. Dan. snive to sniff. See Snuff, v. t.] 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.

Sniff

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

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

To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.

To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.

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

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