Betydelse av sniffed på svenska

• 0 past simple and past participle of sniff

• 1 to smell something by taking air in through your nose:

  • He sniffed his socks to see if they needed washing.

  • Dogs love sniffing each other.

  • She sniffed at her glass of wine before tasting it.

  • 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.