Snuffle vs Gasp - What's the difference?
snuffle | gasp |
to sniff with the nose loudly and audibly.
To sniff or smell something very loudly.
To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
* Dryden
A short, sudden intake of breath.
(British, slang): A draw or drag on a cigarette (or gasper).
To draw in the breath suddenly, as if from a shock.
To breathe laboriously or convulsively.
* Lloyd
To speak in a breathless manner.
To pant with eagerness; to show vehement desire.
* Spenser
As nouns the difference between snuffle and gasp
is that snuffle is an act of snuffling; sniffing loudly while gasp is sigh, yawn; the act of sighing.As a verb snuffle
is to sniff with the nose loudly and audibly.snuffle
English
Verb
(snuffl)- One clad in purple / Eats, and recites some lamentable rhyme / Snuffling at nose, and croaking in his throat.
Derived terms
* (l)gasp
English
Noun
(en noun)- The audience gave a gasp of astonishment
- I'm popping out for a gasp .
Verb
(en verb)- The audience gasped as the magician disappeared.
- We were all gasping when we reached the summit.
- She gasps and struggles hard for life.
- The old man gasped his last few words.
- I'm gasping for a cup of tea.
- Quenching the gasping furrows' thirst with rain.