0 past simple and past participle of sniff
1 to smell something by taking air in through your nose:
Dogs love sniffing each other.
Dogs are sometimes used at airports to sniff out (= find by smelling) drugs in people's luggage.
He was expelled from school for sniffing glue (= taking in the gas from glue because of the feelings of pleasure that this gives).
You're sniffing a lot - do you have a cold?
[ + speech ] "They didn't even serve wine at dinner!" she sniffed.
He sniffed the flowers.
I hardly think the subject warrants that,' ' sniffed one college head.
The problem with putting in an additive is that an enormous variety of solvents can be sniffed for kicks.
It would avail those who manufacture glues which are sniffed by people in and around my constituency with tragic results.
