0 to breathe in quickly and repeatedly through the nose, usually because you are crying or because you have a cold:
You're sniffling a lot today - have you got a cold?
2 to take in air through the nose repeatedly in a way that others can hear, usually because you are crying or because you have a cold:
I could hear her sniffling into her handkerchief.
3 The sniffles is a slight cold.
The sniffles can also refer by metonymy to the common cold, though colds often do not result in sniffles, and sniffles often are not caused by colds.
Reducing the need to sniffle generally involves reducing the symptoms causing the excessive mucus, often through antihistamines or decongestants.
Her little black nose goes sniffle, sniffle, snuffle, and her eyes go twinkle, twinkle, and beneath her little white cap are prickles!
I scratched my jaw as she began to sniffle.
They are not trained to recognise infectious diseases and to know the difference between a serious disease and a case of the sniffles.
The black death could be made to look like a mild case of the sniffles.
Sniffles' head is almost as large as his body, which allows his infant-like face to dominate his look.
Sniffles, still with his metal detector, is excited to find a coin on the ground.
