ˈsnaffling, ppl. a.
[f. snaffle v.3]
Snuffling; speaking through the nose.
| a 1585 Montgomerie Flyting 569 Contagious cankers carues his snafling snout. 1620 Shelton Quix. iii. vi. I. 164 He stopt his nose very well between his Fingers, and then said with a Snaffling voice. 1651 Lilly Chas. I (1774) 211 An obstinate King, wholly led by the nose by these snaffling Priests. a 1668 R. Lassels Voy. Italy (1698) II. 135 The snaffling fellow..will tell you another story of this statue through the nose. 1793 Southey Juv. & Minor P., Chapel Bell, The snuffling, snaffling Fellow's nasal tone. 1805 in ‘Geo. Paston’ Side-lights Georgian Period (1902) 251 Such a little snaffling man, if I may use the expression, I hardly ever heard. |