Emily Dickinson Lexicon

SNUFF'LE, v.i. [D. snuffelen; G. nüffeln and schnuffeln; Dan. snövler, to snuffle, to give a crabbed answer, to snub.]

To speak through the nose; to breathe hard through the nose, or through the nose when obstructed. Some senseless Phillis, in a broken note, / Snuffling at nose. – Dryden.