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> sniff
> 
> sniff snif, sb. f. the vb.The phrase
> 
> in a sniff
> 
> in a sniff `in a moment' occurs slightly earlier in dial.: see the
> Eng. Dial. Dict.
> 
> 1.
> 
> a. An act of sniffing; a single inhalation through the nose in order
> to smell something, usually accompanied by a characteristic short
> snuffling sound; the sound made in doing this.
> 
>    * 1767 Warton Oxford Newsman's V. 34 Oh, cou'd I but have had one
>      single sup, One single sniff at Charlotte's caudle-cup!
> 
>    * 1798 O'Keeffe Wild Oats ii. i, Rain over-quite fine-I'll take a
>      sniff of the open air too.
> 
>    * 1833 T. Hook Parson's Dau. ii. i, Then he made a sort of a
>      sniff with his nose, because he could smell the dinner.
> 
>    * 1868 H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. i. vi. (ed. 2) I. 109 When the
>      sniffs have been continued for some time, scarcely any scent
>      can be perceived.
> 
>    * 1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius i, [He] was taking his evening
>      sniff of the Neckar breeze.
> 
>      transf.
> 
>    * 1860 Mayne Reid Hunters' Feast vi, It was a sort of prolonged
>      hiss, that all except Ike believed to be the snort of the black
>      bear. Ike..declared that it was..the `sniff', as he termed it,
>      of the `painter' (cougar).
> 
> b. A smell or scent.
> 
>    * 1844 Hood The Turtles 34 All whiffs, and sniffs, and puffs and
>      snuffs,..That, as we walk upon the river's ridge, Assault the
>      nose.
> 
> c. Sniffing distance.
> 
>    * 1878 Stevenson Inland Voy. xx. 216 We were within sniff of
>      Paris, it seemed.
> 
> d. fig. A hint, intimation.
> 
>    * 1936 C. Day Lewis Friendly Tree ii. ix. 124, I have
>      been..wondering if I shall ever get a job... I have just got a
>      sniff of one-experimental work.
> 
> 2. An act of sniffing in order to express or show contempt, disdain,
> incredulity, or similar feeling.
> 
>    * 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. iii. iii, Lambeth..is met..by nothing
>      but Royalist brocards; sniffs, huffs, and open insults.
> 
>    * 1840 Dickens Barn. Rudge xli, Miss Miggs gave a great sniff to
>      the same effect.
> 
>    * 1884 Manch. Exam. 19 Dec. 5/2 A look and a sniff which express
>      as clearly as articulate words a homely rejoinder [etc.].
> 
>    * 1891 J. S. Winter Lumley xii, `She is downstairs, and I think
>      she's come to stop,' with a sniff of disgust.
> 
> 3. An act (or habit) of clearing the nose by a short inhalation.
> 
>    * 1860 All Year Round No. 75. 588 An elderly woman labouring
>      under a chronic sniff.
> 
>    * 1883 H. Drummond in G. A. Smith Life (1899) viii. 188 The
>      creature..gives vent to a tremendous sniff, as if he had just
>      caught a severe cold in the head.
> 
> 4. U.S. A contemptible or insignificant person.
> 
>    * 1890 Gunter Miss Nobody xii, Her mother..cries out, astounded:
>      `Going to marry that little sniff?'
> 
> 5. U.S. A domino game in which the first double played has special
> significance; the first double played.
> 
>    * 1917 J. Hergesheimer Three Black Pennys iii. xxiv. 289 After
>      dinner, when they were playing sniff.
> 
>    * 1930 J. H. Appel Business Biogr. J. Wanamaker xxii. 336 His own
>      favourite game was `sniff', played with dominoes.
> 
>    * 1961 D. C. Armanino Pop. Domino Games 37 A singles may be
>      played off the end of singles, the sides of doubles, and the
>      ends of Sniff. Sniff is the only double on which plays can be
>      made on the ends.
> 
>    * 1974 F. Berndt Domino Bk. 33 Sniff is yet another variation of
>      Muggins.
> 
>    * 1974 F. Berndt Domino Bk., 33 The first double played is called
>      the Sniff.
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> sniff
> 
> sniff snif, v. Forms: 4-5 snyff, 6 sniffe, 8- sniff. Imitative: cf.
> sniffle v. and snuff v.
> 
> 1.
> 
> a. intr. To draw air through the nose with short or sharp audible
> inhalations; to clear the nose in this way, esp. when under the
> influence of emotion.
> 
>    * C. 1340 Nominale (Skeat) 88 Man snyffyth and snyuelith.
> 
>    * C. 1400 Beryn 39 She snyffith, sighith, and shooke hire hede,
>      and made rouful chere.
> 
>    * C. 1460 J. Russell Bk. Nurture 284 Pike not youre nose.., Snyff
>      nor snitynge hyt to lowd lest youre souerayne hit here.
> 
>    * 1575 Turberv. Faulconrie 231 It shall be good..to skowre the
>      head alone, and purge it with some deuise, to force hir snyte
>      and sniffe as men do accustome to sneze.
> 
>    * 1575 Turberv. Faulconrie 232 To discerne this disease of the
>      head, the hawke will sniffe often.
> 
>    * 1839 Dickens Nickleby iv, The little boy beyond alternately
>      sniffing and choking, gave no further vent to his emotions.
> 
>    * 1885 Manch. Exam. 9 May 6/2 The ladies were all weeping
>      wildly,..dozens of men were sniffing suspiciously.
> 
> b. spec. To inhale cocaine, the fumes of glue, etc., through the
> nose. slang.
> 
>    * 1925 Flynn's 4 Apr. 819/2 Sniff,..to use powdered cocaine as
>      snuff.
> 
>    * 1931 E. Wallace On Spot ii. 24 Red, you're..a hop-head... We
>      got no room in this outfit for guys who sniff.
> 
>    * 1967 C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post v. 62 So they send us a
>      dipso who sniffs!
> 
>    * 1970 New Scientist 13 Aug. 352/1 These young people generally
>      `sniffed' from a plastic bag into which they first squirted
>      aeroplane glue, cleaning fluid or whatever.
> 
>    * 1975 Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 8 Feb. 21 The Whitebear sisters
>      began sniffing almost two years ago, Janice says. `A friend of
>      ours used to sniff. At first, we didn't know what he was doing,
>      so we asked and then we tried it too.'
> 
>    * 1977 J. van de Wetering Death of Hawker vii. 73 He's sniffing
>      too... Cocaine powder.
> 
> 2.
> 
> a. To sniff in smelling; to smell with a sniff or sniffs. Said esp.
> of animals.
> 
>    * 1788 Cowper Death of Mrs. Throckmorton's Bulfinch 40 He [sc. a
>      cat]..something in the wind Conjectur'd, sniffing round and
>      round.
> 
>    * 1848 Dickens Dombey lv, Some dogs..that sniffed upon the road.
> 
>    * 1874 C. Keene Let. in Life (1892) vii. 160 [A] little animal,
>      always sniffing about for mice.
> 
>    * 1899 Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 341 The patient in smelling
>      sniffed with one nostril only.
> 
>      fig.
> 
>    * 1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. xiv, If he came sneaking and
>      sniffing about the property.
> 
>    * 1973 A. Mann Tiara ix. 76, I want to..sniff around the Vatican
>      again.
> 
>    * 1977 R. Player Month of Mangled Models vii. 133 Sniffing around
>      Chelsea and Kelmscott.
> 
> b. Const. at.
> 
>    * 1792 Mme. D'Arblay Diary 27 June, She..sniffed at her flowers
>      with a sort of ecstatic eagerness.
> 
>    * 1833 Marryat P. Simple (1863) 239 After sniffing at it two or
>      three times, I knew it to be otto of roses.
> 
>    * 1865 Tylor Early Hist. Man. iii. 45 The Fijians, who used to
>      salute by smelling or sniffing at one another.
> 
>    * 1883 Olive Schreiner Story Afr. Farm i. i, A curious old ewe
>      came to sniff at him.
> 
> 3. To show or express contempt, disdain, disparagement, incredulity,
> or similar feeling, by sniffing:
> 
> a. Const. at a person or thing.
> 
>    * 1729 Swift Grand Question Wks. 1755 IV. i. 109 So then you
>      look'd scornful, and snift at the dean.
> 
>    * 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. vi. iv, Camille Desmoulins, and
>      others, sniffing at him for it.
> 
>    * 1864 Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvi. x. (1872) VI. 262 Our Shopkeepers
>      of the Rue St. Honoré would sniff at such a lodging;
> 
>    * 1888 Times 6 July 9/3 Superior persons..will doubtless sniff at
>      the expression of opinion upon these topics by the House of
>      Lords.
> 
> b. Without const.
> 
>    * 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. vi. ii, Dusky D'Espréménil does
>      nothing but sniff and ejaculate;
> 
>    * 1871 Mrs. Whitney Real Folks xvii, She did not sniff; she was a
>      great deal too much a lady.
> 
>    * 1881 Besant & Rice Chapl. Fleet I. 91 Mrs. Gambitt sniffed
>      disdainfully.
> 
> 4.
> 
> a. trans. To take up, draw in, (air, etc.) by inhaling through the
> nostrils.
> 
>    * 1796 Mme. D'Arblay Camilla I. 147 Seeing he was sniffing up the
>      eau suave without looking at her.
> 
>    * 1822-7 Good Study Med. (1829) III. 189 Cold water may be
>      sniffed up the nostrils.
> 
>    * 1828 Lady Granville Lett. 29 July (1894) II. 29, I sniffed up
>      country air, and felt better and better every mile.
> 
>    * 1873 Agnes Matheson in Mem. Minister's Wife (1881) vii. 98, I
>      can sit and sniff in the sea-breezes.
> 
> b. Without adv.
> 
>    * 1843 Sir C. Scudamore Med. Visit Grafenberg 75 Head-bath twice
>      a day; and to sniff water freely several times in the day.
> 
>    * 1856 Kane Arctic Explor. II. xiii. 138 Dr. Hayes..came aft and
>      crawled upon deck to sniff the day-light.
> 
>    * 1870 R. Brough M. Lynch x, [He] could sniff the sea breeze
>      through the counting-house window.
> 
> c. fig. or in fig. context.
> 
>    * 1864 Dk. Manchester Crt. & Soc; I. vii. 106 Sniffing a far-off
>      scent of battle with the restless craving of the war-horse.
> 
>    * 1881 Besant & Rice Chapl. Fleet ii. x, His turn-up nose seemed
>      so joyfully to sniff the incense of praise.
> 
> 5.
> 
> a. To smell (a thing).
> 
>    * A. 1845 Hood Town & Country v, For meadow-buds I get a whiff of
>      Cheshire cheese,-or only sniff The turtle made at Cuff's.
> 
>    * 1871 B. Taylor Faust i. iii. (1875) II. 28 The platter-licker,
>      he sniffs the roasting.
> 
> b. fig. To perceive as if by smell; to smell or smell out (a plot,
> etc.); to suspect. Also with out.
> 
>    * 1864 C. Knight Passages Work. Life I. iii. 175 Lord Sidmouth,
>      as was his wont, had sniffed a plot from afar.
> 
>    * 1873 C. M. Davies Unorth. London (1876) 43 It is not only Rome
>      that sniffs heresy in independent thought or action.
> 
>    * 1899 C. Scott Drama of Yesterday I. xvi. 538, I sniffed more
>      prey.
> 
>    * 1946 Sun (Baltimore) 12 Aug. 1/2 A pilotless aircraft that is
>      sent into the air to `sniff out' its own enemy target.
> 
>    * 1979 J. Barnett Backfire is Hostile! xi. 111 You should
>      concentrate more on sniffing out the sex fiends than
>      speculating on spies.
> 
> c. Phr.
> 
> to sniff the wind
> 
> to sniff the wind: see wind sb.1
> 
> 6. To regard (something) with contempt or scorn; to sneer at.
> 
>    * 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. v. viii, Thus some, with up-turned
>      nose, will altogether sniff and disdain Sansculottism.
> 
> 7. To utter with a (scornful) sniff; to express by means of a sniff.
> 
>    * 1859 Meredith R. Feverel xl, `Are you cold?' she would ask,
>      smiling charitably. `I am.'..`You always appear to be,' the
>      bosom sniffed and snapped.
> 
>    * 1865 A. Smith Summer in Skye i. 24 Fastidious Edinburgh sniffs
>      disdain.
> 
>    * 1870 Mrs. Riddell Austin Friars iv, `Of course you would
>      forgive anything from her,' sniffed Melinda.
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>   1.  as-suchnes(1962) Times Lit. Suppl. 4 May 311/3 ``Mr.
>      Middleton..has a beautiful love and respect also just for the
>      as-suchness of things: the sniffing man in the restaurant.''
>   2.  barminess (1908) E. V. Lucas Over Bemerton's vi. 60, ``I heard
>      what sounded like a sarcastic sniff deprecative of her uncle's
>      barminess.''
>   3.  big (1893) H. Maxwell Life of W. H. Smith I. ii. 57
>      ``Sometimes a young man, `too big for his boots', would..sniff
>      at being put in charge of a railway bookstall. ''
>   4.  bitchily (1938) G. Greene Brighton Rock ii. ii. 83 ``A little
>      Jewess sniffed at him bitchily and then talked him over with
>      another little Jewess on a settee. ''
>   5.  bomblet (1972) Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 30 Mar. 1/4 ``Devices
>      such as people sniffers, spider mines, and silent button
>      bomblets. ''
>   6.  break- (1985) Sunday Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 3 Feb. 32/4 ``The
>      streets of New York and Los Angeles might twitch with
>      coke-sniffers, break-dancers and the denizens of the eighties,
>      but the old America was not dead yet.''
>   7.  brocard (1837) Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. iii. 143 ``Lameth..is
>      met in those Assembly corridors by nothing but Royalist
>      brocards; sniffs, huffs, and open insults.''
>   8.  candle (1858) Geo. Eliot Amos Bart. ii. (D.) ``The inveterate
>      culprit was a boy of seven, vainly contending against candles
>      at his nose by feeble sniffing.''
>   9.  convulse (A. 1845) Hood Jack Hall xxxiv, ``Nor vultures
>      sniff'd so far away A last convulse.''
>  10.  copy (1969) J. Bennett Dragon viii. 104 ``This
>      stringer..sniffed out the story and filed it to New York, where
>      a copy editor promptly spiked it. ''
>  11.  crackle (1883) Miss Braddon Gold. Calf iv. 43 ``They
>      had..sniffed at the stale pot-pourri in old crackle vases. ''
>  12.  crazy (1957) J. Kerouac On Road (1958) 164 ``So amazingly
>      himself, all raging and sniffy and *crazy-wayed. ''
>  13.  deck (1922) E. F. Murphy Black Candle (1926) i. v. 52 ``Small
>      paper packages [of cocaine]..are called `decks', and contain
>      about a couple of sniffs. ''
>  14.  double-bar(1848) Thackeray Bk. Snobs xii, ``He
>      double-barrelled his name, and, instead of T. Sniffle..came
>      out..as Rev. T. D'Arcy Sniffle. ''
>  15.  dragon (1984) Times 8 Oct. 13/3 ``More [heroin] is taken by
>      sniffing the powder-snorting; or by `chasing the dragon'..less
>      through intravenous injection. ''
>  16.  freebase (1985) Times 21 Jan. 3/2 ``Cocaine..has traditionally
>      been taken by sniffing but there are reports of `freebasing',
>      which involves heating the drug to remove impurities and then
>      inhaling the fumes.''
>  17.  fug (1915) Bartimeus A Tall Ship ix. 171 ```Pouf!' he
>      exclaimed. `What a fug!' And elevated his nose with a sniff. ''
>  18.  gelid (1866) Howells Venet. Life 36 ``She sniffed and offered
>      a gelid prayer.''
>  19.  Gloire de (1928) Galsworthy Swan Song i. xiii. 102 ``He took
>      up a rose and sniffed at it deeply. So many different kinds
>      now-he had lost track! In his young days one could tell them-La
>      France, Mar&eacu.chal Niel, and Gloire de Dijon-nothing else to
>      speak of. ''
>  20.  glue (1963) New Society 20 June 14/1 ``A new threat to
>      teen-age stability..is glue-sniffing, the deliberate inhaling
>      of the fumes from plastic cement. ''
>  21.  glue (1963) New Society 14/2 ``The glue sniffers..frequently
>      fall asleep in class. ''
>  22.  glue (1968) Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 6 Oct. 21/1 ``That
>      particular glue-sniffer told police his story in Los Angeles,
>      but it could just as easily have been in any police department
>      in Greater Victoria. ''
>  23.  glue (1971) E. E. Landy Underground Dict. 90 ``Glue sniff v.,
>      inhale model-airplane glue... Glue sniffing is regarded as an
>      adolescent type of drug abuse, but it causes organic brain
>      damage, and it can cause liver, kidney and bone-marrow damage.
>      Eventually most glue sniffers outgrow glue and go to more
>      adult-type drugs such as marijuana, [etc.]. ''
>  24.  glue (1971) J. Drummond Farewell Party xxv. 131 ``One of those
>      red brick boxes..with a nice view of the glue factory... A
>      glue-sniffer could get high there..just by holding his
>      breath.''
>  25.  gunge (1977) Sounds 1 Jan. 20/4 ``A few academic `experts'
>      know something about the short-term effects of sniffing, but
>      aren't too sure about exactly how it gunges up the body.''
>  26.  gurk (1962) C. Middleton Torse 3 ii. 38 ``A too hard sniff
>      culminates in a sly gurk.''
>  27.  H (1933) C. de Lenoir Hundredth Man iv. 61, ``I opened the
>      packet of H. and took a generous sniff. ''
>  28.  H (1963) S. Marshall Exper. in Education ii. 40 ``The modern
>      H.M.I. sniffs the atmosphere of a school the moment he opens
>      the door. ''
>  29.  hard (1965) Malcolm X Autobiogr. vii. 110 `` As the pros did,
>      I too would key myself to pull these jobs by my first use of
>      hard dope. I began with..sniffing cocaine. ''
>  30.  hesitation(1933) Bloomfield Lang. xii. 186 ``When a speaker
>      hesitates, English and some other languages offer special
>      parenthetic hesitation-forms, as [&schwax.:] or [&epsilon.] in
>      Mr. -ah-Sniffen. ''
>  31.  high (1906) Daily Chron. 12 July 3/3 ``*High-sniffing
>      pretenders..affect to find in Mr. Meredith's poetry naught that
>      is obscure. ''
>  32.  horse (1951) N.Y. Times 13 June 24/3 ``Then one day we met
>      another fellow and he offered us some heroin. I sniffed this
>      too. We called it `horse' and `H'. ''
>  33.  I (1946) Koestler Thieves in Night ii. 91 ``Max, who has an
>      enormous, sniffing tapir-nose and an unkempt I.L.P.-mane. ''
>  34.  jab (1956) S. Longstreet Real Jazz xviii. 114 ``Not all
>      jazz-players smoke marijuana or opium, or sniff snow or jab a
>      vein. ''
>  35.  jitter (1932) Brevities (N.Y.) 5 Dec. 16 (heading) ``Jittering
>      junkies sniff sexy joy flakes. ''
>  36.  joy (1951) Time 26 Feb. 24/3 ``A sniff of heroin is a `snort
>      of horse', and an injection under the skin a `joy pop'. ''
>  37.  Lapsang So(1942) G. Mitchell Laurels are Poison xvii. 184
>      ``Jonathan..took the lid off the teapot, sniffed, said:
>      `Lapseng? All right, I'll have some.' ''
>  38.  lickerish (1802) G. Colman Br. Grins, Knight &. Friar i. lx,
>      ``A liquorish black rat Lured by the cook to sniff and smell
>      her bacon. ''
>  39.  low-life (1971) Black World Apr. 38/2 ``Our responsible
>      leaders sniffed their disdain of the low-lifes and begged
>      aristocrats for white-collar jobs.''
>  40.  luxe (1974) New Yorker 3 June 98/2 ``He looks round his palace
>      of a house with sniffly and quite unfair resentment,
>      considering its comfort and luxe.''
>  41.  made (1952) J. Carter Bks. &. Bk.-Collectors (1956) vi. ii.
>      195 ``The..language of book-collectors..is thickly encrusted
>      with jargon... `Made-up,' says one, with a sniff. `Q6 is a
>      cancel as usual,' says another. ''
>  42.  nose (1960) Time 25 Jan. 88/2 ``Cocaine..is put into
>      crystalline form. This enables users to sniff it (`nose
>      candy'). ''
>  43.  odorant (1944) R. W. Moncrieff Chemical Senses viii. 166
>      ``Reactions to odorants are usually mild and undefined, a
>      sniff, a drawing away, or..disgust. ''
>  44.  oeno- (1976) Times 5 May 16/8 ``British Transport Hotels
>      invited distinguished oenophiles to sip and sniff their way
>      through a representative selection of English wines. ''
>  45.  palm (1934) Punch 30 May 592/3, ``I lost seven holes running
>      this morning absolutely and entirely because I had been palmed
>      off with a little swine who sniffed whenever I was about to
>      strike my ball. ''
>  46.  pantler (1842) Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. ii. Lay St. Cuthbert,
>      ``Pantler and serving&dubh.man, henchman and page, Stand
>      sniffing the duck-stuffing (onion and sage).''
>  47.  pas si bet(1924) J. Buchan Three Hostages xii. 179 ```What
>      about the weather?' I asked anxiously. `Pas si bę.te,' he said,
>      sniffing. `The wind is pretty sure to go down.' ''
>  48.  people (1965) Daily Tel. 5 Oct. 22/8 ``A person being examined
>      is placed in a `*people sniffer', a glass cylinder, and an
>      analysis of the outgoing air discloses the chemical make-up of
>      the subject. ''
>  49.  people (1968) N.Y. Times 18 Aug. i. 3 ``United States troops
>      refer to the gadget as the `people sniffer'. It leads American
>      officers here in the Mekong delta to enemy hide-outs by
>      `sniffing out' the kind of ammonia odors given off by the human
>      body. ''
>  50.  people (1973) Times 24 Jan. 8/6 ``There has been use of the
>      Manpack Personnel Detector, or `people-sniffer'-picking up the
>      enemy by the smell of his sweat. ''
>  51.  people (1977) Time 2 May 44/1 ``Their principal piece of
>      equipment is a `people sniffer', an electronic sensing device
>      developed to catch the prowling Viet Cong. Despite its name,
>      the instrument actually detects the minute seismic vibrations
>      caused by a person walking.''
>  52.  periodate (1890) Pall Mall G. 6 Jan. 2/3 ``A medical
>      contemporary mentioned that one sniff of periodate crystals
>      would cure an attack of influenza. ''
>  53.  petrol (1958) W. Sansom Cautious Heart 53 ``Do you know what a
>      petrol-sniffer is?.. It's quite serious really, it's an
>      addiction to the smell of petrol-like any other narcotic.
>      People who work among petrol fumes get the habit. ''
>  54.  petrol (1973) Black World June 47/2 ``The..escapism..is
>      `petrol-sniffing', which produces a coma-like state. ''
>  55.  pig (1979) M. Hebden Death set to Music iii. 29 ``Pel sniffed
>      at his stew. `I think they took it from the pig bin,' he
>      observed coldly. ''
>  56.  pile-drive(1858) A. Mayhew Paved with Gold ii. xii. 189
>      ``After some sparring, Jack threw out his `pile-drivers' and
>      caught Ned on the `sniffer', but the nose didn't suffer much.
>      ''
>  57.  place (1923) Wodehouse Inimit. Jeeves xiv. 179 ``A sniffing
>      female in blue gingham beat a pie-faced kid in pink for the
>      place-money, and Prudence Baxter, Jeeves's long shot, was
>      either fifth or sixth, I couldn't see which. ''
>  58.  poison (1964) L. Deighton Funeral in Berlin xlii. 262 ``You
>      are poison to Gehlen... There isn't a place left in the whole
>      world where you would get a sniff of a job. ''
>  59.  pong (1960) H. Pinter Dumb Waiter 130 ``What, you mean it
>      might be my pong? (He sniffs sheets.) Yes... It could be my
>      pong I suppose. ''
>  60.  poofy (1964) J. Hale Grudge Fight v. 74 ``Being Windy the soap
>      is scented, pink stuff sent to him by Momma in the last parcel.
>      `Very pouffy,' says Tug, sniffing it. ''
>  61.  pretty-boy(1898) R. Hughes Lakerim Athletic Club 241
>      ``Sawed-Off had sniffed scornfully that lawn-tennis was a game
>      fit for nobody but girls and pretty boys. ''
>  62.  propellant(1973) Daily Tel. 15/8 ``A variety of compressed or
>      liquified bases are used in aerosols and technically known as
>      propellents. Most are halogenated hydrocarbons, which are also
>      refrigerants, and sniffing of such propellents is a recognised
>      form of drug abuse in Britain and the United States. ''
>  63.  protrusive(1831) Carlyle Sart. Res. i. x, ``To him thou, with
>      sniffing charity, wilt protrusively proffer thy hand-lamp. ''
>  64.  pyramid (1976) National Observer (U.S.) 10 Apr. 21/1 ``He will
>      pinch powdery tobacco between his thumb and forefinger, pyramid
>      it on the back of his opposite hand, bring it to his nostrils,
>      and sniff.''
>  65.  Pythagorea(1865) Sat. Rev. 4 Nov. 577 ``There is, by the way,
>      a slight sniff of Pythagoreanism about the phrase `appreciative
>      numbers'. ''
>  66.  quill (1970) C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 95 ``Quill,
>      folded matchbook cover in which a narcotic is held and smoked
>      or sniffed. ''
>  67.  ravel (1805) J. Austin in Trans. Soc. Arts XXIII. 242 ``An
>      universal ravel or sniffle, useful at the beaming of all kinds
>      of webs.''
>  68.  ring (1941) I. L. Idriess Great Boomerang vii. 56 ``The cattle
>      began to ring, the centre beasts edged outwards, then turned
>      inward and began to sniff, to paw the earth. ''
>  69.  rubberneck(1969) Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 21 Nov. 73/2
>      ``Hortensio was rubber&dubh.necking like an American tourist,
>      admiring the scenery, sniffing the breeze. ''
>  70.  schmeck (1966) C. Himes Heat's On xix. 145 ``The
>      skin&dubh.poppers and the schmeckers (those who used the needle
>      and those who sniffed the powder).''
>  71.  sea-dog (1855) Kingsley Westw. Ho! iii, ``Sniffing the keen
>      salt air like a young sea-dog. ''
>  72.  shut (1575) Turberv. Faulconrie 292 ``The hawke will sniffe
>      often and shet her eyes towards night. ''
>  73.  Siamese (1950) W. de la Mare Inward Companion 70 ``That crafty
>      cat, a buff-black Siamese, Sniffing through wild wood. ''
>  74.  slab (1905) W. B. Where White Man Treads 293 ``He..who lives
>      in a slab whare, and on a fare which his dainty collie sniffs
>      at and rejects. ''
>  75.  sleigh-rid(1942) Detective Fiction Apr. 56/2 ``Julio is very
>      fond of his hop. Anything from the weed to a sniff of snow.
>      Suppose he gets on a big sleigh ride and talks out of turn. ''
>  76.  sleigh-rid(1929) Detective Fiction Weekly 13 Apr. 599/1 ``He's
>      a sleigh rider. You know, sniffs coke. Made a fortune writing
>      papers for booze hustlers and has spent every dime of it on
>      snow. ''
>  77.  sleigh-rid(1934) C. de Lenoir Hundredth Man i. 13 ``Sniffing
>      heroin or cocaine is `sleigh&dubh.riding'. ''
>  78.  slum (1929) S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic i. 10 ``He felt at home
>      in the East End and refreshed..when he lay back at night and
>      sniffed the indefinable steam of slumland. ''
>  79.  smoke (1876) T. Hardy Ethelberta (1890) 81 ``Sniffing
>      extraordinary smoke-smells which she discovered in all nooks
>      and crannies of the rooms. ''
>  80.  sniff (1767) Warton Oxford Newsman's V. 34 ``Oh, cou'd I but
>      have had one single sup, One single sniff at Charlotte's
>      caudle-cup! ''
>  81.  sniff (1798) O'Keeffe Wild Oats ii. i, ``Rain over-quite
>      fine-I'll take a sniff of the open air too. ''
>  82.  sniff (1833) T. Hook Parson's Dau. ii. i, ``Then he made a
>      sort of a sniff with his nose, because he could smell the
>      dinner. ''
>  83.  sniff (1868) H. Spencer Princ. Psychol. i. vi. (ed. 2) I. 109
>      ``When the sniffs have been continued for some time, scarcely
>      any scent can be perceived. ''
>  84.  sniff (1883) F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius i, ``[He] was taking
>      his evening sniff of the Neckar breeze.''
>  85.  sniff (1860) Mayne Reid Hunters' Feast vi, ``It was a sort of
>      prolonged hiss, that all except Ike believed to be the snort of
>      the black bear. Ike..declared that it was..the `sniff', as he
>      termed it, of the `painter' (cougar).''
>  86.  sniff (1844) Hood The Turtles 34 ``All whiffs, and sniffs, and
>      puffs and snuffs,..That, as we walk upon the river's ridge,
>      Assault the nose.''
>  87.  sniff (1878) Stevenson Inland Voy. xx. 216 ``We were within
>      sniff of Paris, it seemed.''
>  88.  sniff (1936) C. Day Lewis Friendly Tree ii. ix. 124, ``I have
>      been..wondering if I shall ever get a job... I have just got a
>      sniff of one-experimental work.''
>  89.  sniff (1837) Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. iii. iii, ``Lambeth..is
>      met..by nothing but Royalist brocards; sniffs, huffs, and open
>      insults. ''
>  90.  sniff (1840) Dickens Barn. Rudge xli, ``Miss Miggs gave a
>      great sniff to the same effect. ''
>  91.  sniff (1884) Manch. Exam. 19 Dec. 5/2 ``A look and a sniff
>      which express as clearly as articulate words a homely rejoinder
>      [etc.]. ''
>  92.  sniff (1891) J. S. Winter Lumley xii, ```She is downstairs,
>      and I think she's come to stop,' with a sniff of disgust.''
>  93.  sniff (1860) All Year Round No. 75. 588 ``An elderly woman
>      labouring under a chronic sniff. ''
>  94.  sniff (1883) H. Drummond in G. A. Smith Life (1899) viii. 188
>      ``The creature..gives vent to a tremendous sniff, as if he had
>      just caught a severe cold in the head.''
>  95.  sniff (1890) Gunter Miss Nobody xii, ``Her mother..cries out,
>      astounded: `Going to marry that little sniff?'''
>  96.  sniff (1917) J. Hergesheimer Three Black Pennys iii. xxiv. 289
>      ``After dinner, when they were playing sniff. ''
>  97.  sniff (1930) J. H. Appel Business Biogr. J. Wanamaker xxii.
>      336 ``His own favourite game was `sniff', played with dominoes.
>      ''
>  98.  sniff (1961) D. C. Armanino Pop. Domino Games 37 ``A singles
>      may be played off the end of singles, the sides of doubles, and
>      the ends of Sniff. Sniff is the only double on which plays can
>      be made on the ends. ''
>  99.  sniff (1974) F. Berndt Domino Bk. 33 ``Sniff is yet another
>      variation of Muggins. ''
> 100.  sniff (1974) F. Berndt Domino Bk., 33 ``The first double
>      played is called the Sniff.''
>   1.  sniff (1575) Turberv. Faulconrie 231 ``It shall be good..to
>      skowre the head alone, and purge it with some deuise, to force
>      hir snyte and sniffe as men do accustome to sneze. ''
>   2.  sniff (1575) Turberv. Faulconrie 232 ``To discerne this
>      disease of the head, the hawke will sniffe often. ''
>   3.  sniff (1839) Dickens Nickleby iv, ``The little boy beyond
>      alternately sniffing and choking, gave no further vent to his
>      emotions. ''
>   4.  sniff (1885) Manch. Exam. 9 May 6/2 ``The ladies were all
>      weeping wildly,..dozens of men were sniffing suspiciously.''
>   5.  sniff (1925) Flynn's 4 Apr. 819/2 ``Sniff,..to use powdered
>      cocaine as snuff. ''
>   6.  sniff (1931) E. Wallace On Spot ii. 24 ``Red, you're..a
>      hop-head... We got no room in this outfit for guys who sniff.
>      ''
>   7.  sniff (1967) C. Drummond Death at Furlong Post v. 62 ``So they
>      send us a dipso who sniffs! ''
>   8.  sniff (1970) New Scientist 13 Aug. 352/1 ``These young people
>      generally `sniffed' from a plastic bag into which they first
>      squirted aeroplane glue, cleaning fluid or whatever. ''
>   9.  sniff (1975) Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 8 Feb. 21 ``The Whitebear
>      sisters began sniffing almost two years ago, Janice says. `A
>      friend of ours used to sniff. At first, we didn't know what he
>      was doing, so we asked and then we tried it too.' ''
>  10.  sniff (1977) J. van de Wetering Death of Hawker vii. 73 ``He's
>      sniffing too... Cocaine powder.''
>  11.  sniff (1788) Cowper Death of Mrs. Throckmorton's Bulfinch 40
>      ``He [sc. a cat]..something in the wind Conjectur'd, sniffing
>      round and round. ''
>  12.  sniff (1848) Dickens Dombey lv, ``Some dogs..that sniffed upon
>      the road. ''
>  13.  sniff (1874) C. Keene Let. in Life (1892) vii. 160 ``[A]
>      little animal, always sniffing about for mice. ''
>  14.  sniff (1899) Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 341 ``The patient in
>      smelling sniffed with one nostril only.''
>  15.  sniff (1865) Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. xiv, ``If he came sneaking
>      and sniffing about the property. ''
>  16.  sniff (1973) A. Mann Tiara ix. 76, ``I want to..sniff around
>      the Vatican again. ''
>  17.  sniff (1977) R. Player Month of Mangled Models vii. 133
>      ``Sniffing around Chelsea and Kelmscott.''
>  18.  sniff (1792) Mme. D'Arblay Diary 27 June, ``She..sniffed at
>      her flowers with a sort of ecstatic eagerness. ''
>  19.  sniff (1833) Marryat P. Simple (1863) 239 ``After sniffing at
>      it two or three times, I knew it to be otto of roses. ''
>  20.  sniff (1865) Tylor Early Hist. Man. iii. 45 ``The Fijians, who
>      used to salute by smelling or sniffing at one another. ''
>  21.  sniff (1883) Olive Schreiner Story Afr. Farm i. i, ``A curious
>      old ewe came to sniff at him.''
>  22.  sniff (1837) Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. vi. iv, ``Camille Desmoulins,
>      and others, sniffing at him for it. ''
>  23.  sniff (1864) Carlyle Fredk. Gt. xvi. x. (1872) VI. 262 ``Our
>      Shopkeepers of the Rue St. Honor&eacu. would sniff at such a
>      lodging. ''
>  24.  sniff (1888) Times 6 July 9/3 ``Superior persons..will
>      doubtless sniff at the expression of opinion upon these topics
>      by the House of Lords.''
>  25.  sniff (1837) Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. vi. ii, ``Dusky
>      D'Espr&eacu.m&eacu.nil does nothing but sniff and ejaculate. ''
>  26.  sniff (1871) Mrs. Whitney Real Folks xvii, ``She did not
>      sniff; she was a great deal too much a lady. ''
>  27.  sniff (1881) Besant &. Rice Chapl. Fleet I. 91 ``Mrs. Gambitt
>      sniffed disdainfully.''
>  28.  sniff (1796) Mme. D'Arblay Camilla I. 147 ``Seeing he was
>      sniffing up the eau suave without looking at her. ''
>  29.  sniff (1822-7) Good Study Med. (1829) III. 189 ``Cold water
>      may be sniffed up the nostrils. ''
>  30.  sniff (1828) Lady Granville Lett. 29 July (1894) II. 29, ``I
>      sniffed up country air, and felt better and better every mile.
>      ''
>  31.  sniff (1873) Agnes Matheson in Mem. Minister's Wife (1881)
>      vii. 98, ``I can sit and sniff in the sea-breezes.''
>  32.  sniff (1843) Sir C. Scudamore Med. Visit Grafenberg 75
>      ``Head&dubh.bath twice a day; and to sniff water freely several
>      times in the day. ''
>  33.  sniff (1856) Kane Arctic Explor. II. xiii. 138 ``Dr.
>      Hayes..came aft and crawled upon deck to sniff the
>      day&dubh.light. ''
>  34.  sniff (1870) R. Brough M. Lynch x, ``[He] could sniff the sea
>      breeze through the counting-house window.''
>  35.  sniff (1864) Dk. Manchester Crt. &. Soc. I. vii. 106
>      ``Sniffing a far-off scent of battle with the restless craving
>      of the war&dubh.horse. ''
>  36.  sniff (1881) Besant &. Rice Chapl. Fleet ii. x, ``His turn-up
>      nose seemed so joyfully to sniff the incense of praise.''
>  37.  sniff (A. 1845) Hood Town &. Country v, ``For meadow-buds I
>      get a whiff of Cheshire cheese,-or only sniff The turtle made
>      at Cuff's. ''
>  38.  sniff (1871) B. Taylor Faust i. iii. (1875) II. 28 ``The
>      platter-licker, he sniffs the roasting.''
>  39.  sniff (1864) C. Knight Passages Work. Life I. iii. 175 ``Lord
>      Sidmouth, as was his wont, had sniffed a plot from afar. ''
>  40.  sniff (1873) C. M. Davies Unorth. London (1876) 43 ``It is not
>      only Rome that sniffs heresy in independent thought or action.
>      ''
>  41.  sniff (1899) C. Scott Drama of Yesterday I. xvi. 538, ``I
>      sniffed more prey.''
>  42.  sniff (1946) Sun (Baltimore) 12 Aug. 1/2 ``A pilotless
>      aircraft that is sent into the air to `sniff out' its own enemy
>      target. ''
>  43.  sniff (1979) J. Barnett Backfire is Hostile! xi. 111 ``You
>      should concentrate more on sniffing out the sex fiends than
>      speculating on spies.''
>  44.  sniff (1837) Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. v. viii, ``Thus some, with
>      up&dubh.turned nose, will altogether sniff and disdain
>      Sansculottism.''
>  45.  sniff (1859) Meredith R. Feverel xl, ```Are you cold?' she
>      would ask, smiling charitably. `I am.'..`You always appear to
>      be,' the bosom sniffed and snapped. ''
>  46.  sniff (1865) A. Smith Summer in Skye i. 24 ``Fastidious
>      Edinburgh sniffs disdain. ''
>  47.  sniff (1870) Mrs. Riddell Austin Friars iv, ```Of course you
>      would forgive anything from her,' sniffed Melinda.''
>  48.  sniffable (1975) Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 8 Feb. 23/1 ``Stocks
>      of the old sniffable product were being bootlegged by merchants
>      all over Regina. ''
>  49.  sniffable (1977) J. Wambaugh Black Marble (1978) iv. 36
>      ``Lopez boasted that he could..have enough sniffable paint left
>      to get three of his pals loaded.''
>  50.  sniffer (1864) Realm 1 June 8 ``Sniffer and snorter. ''
>  51.  sniffer (1889) Pall Mall G. 30 Jan. 3/1 ``Those who are deaf
>      and those who are sniffers.''
>  52.  sniffer (1920) E. S. Bishop Narcotic Drug Problem iii. 23
>      ``The heroin `sniffer' of idle and curious adolescence. ''
>  53.  sniffer (1928) Amer. Mercury Aug. 485/2 ``The Baron was..a
>      `sniffer' himself. ''
>  54.  sniffer (1942) J. Henry Henry's Famous Cases iv. 40 ``Cocaine
>      addicts are known as `sniffers'. ''
>  55.  sniffer (1968) Guardian 22 Mar. 11/1 ``Doreen was also a
>      `sniffer'. This is the name given to people who inhale a
>      mixture of ether and methylated spirits and become `blocked'.
>      ''
>  56.  sniffer (1981) Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 3/1 ``A glue sniffer is
>      under the influence of a drug for the purposes of the 1972 Road
>      Traffic Act, magistrates decided yesterday when a
>      self-confessed `sniffer' denied being unfit to drive through
>      drink or drugs while in charge of a motorcycle.''
>  57.  sniffer (1962) R. Cook Crust on its Uppers ii. 34
>      ``They'll..look down their sniffers at you.''
>  58.  sniffer (1945) Richmond (Virginia) Times-Dispatch 10 Oct. 2/5
>      ``The hydrogen content in copper wire annealing furnaces..is
>      now continuously indicated by a new sensitive apparatus called
>      a sniffer nose. ''
>  59.  sniffer (1946) Sun (Baltimore) 21 June 10/3 ``Louis E. De La
>      Fleur..demonstrated a small hand-borne radio fixer, known as a
>      `sniffer'. He said that it was so accurate that he had been
>      able..to locate an outlaw transmitter in a New York apartment
>      house where hundreds of legal radios and electrical devices
>      were putting out potential inteference. ''
>  60.  sniffer (1950) Listener 5 Jan. 12/1 ``These tiny Geiger
>      counters first came to public attention last spring in New
>      York... Uranium can turn up anywhere so there is no reason why,
>      if you had a `sniffer', as they are called, you should not
>      start prospecting here in Great Britain. ''
>  61.  sniffer (1968) Guardian 5 Sept. 2/7 ``Perch a radar sensor on
>      the tail..: insert a diesel fume `sniffer'. ''
>  62.  sniffer (1972) J. Lange Binary 170 ``The sniffer..had been
>      developed for use in Vietnam and had been adapted for customs
>      operations... If the sniffer said plastic explosive was behind
>      the door, he had to believe it. ''
>  63.  sniffer (1979) F. Pohl Jem iii. 26 ``The car was..an
>      indispensable necessity in what he did for the agency; twice a
>      day, other employees of the agency went over it with electronic
>      sniffers and radio probes to make sure it had been neither
>      bombed nor bugged.''
>  64.  sniffer (1964) N.Y. Times Mag. 23 Aug. 62/3 ``Sniffer, police
>      dog. ''
>  65.  sniffer (1975) A. Beevor Violent Brink iii. 66 ``We are
>      using..sniffer dogs at ports and airports so as to increase our
>      chances of catching the explosive coming in. ''
>  66.  sniffer (1977) Air Mail Spring 7/1 ``In the first two months
>      `sniffer' dogs and handlers trained by the RAF Police Dog
>      Training Flight had helped British Customs and Excise officers
>      detect &pstlg.125,000 worth of smuggled drugs. ''
>  67.  sniffer (1979) Daily Tel. 17 Apr. 1/6 ``Forty-five `sniffer'
>      dogs were flown into Yugoslavia from Switzerland and set to
>      work to smell out casualties from debris in towns around Kotor
>      Bay. ''
>  68.  sniffer (1982) Times 3 Sept. 10/5 ``Sniffer-dogs for drugs.''
>  69.  sniffing (1575) Turberv. Faulconrie 231 ``You may rubbe..the
>      pallate of your Hawke with the saide powder, and not feede hir
>      after it, vntill such tyme she haue lefte snyting and sniffing.
>      ''
>  70.  sniffing (1842) Thackeray Fitz-Boodle's Conf. Wks. 1869 XXII.
>      229 ``People looking and making a strange nasal noise (it is
>      called sniffing). ''
>  71.  sniffing (1872) Huxley Physiol. iv. 90 ``Sniffing is a more
>      rapid inspiratory act, in which the mouth is kept shut, and the
>      air made to pass through the nose. ''
>  72.  sniffing (1893) Selous Trav. S.E. Africa 421 ``Sometimes these
>      sniffings were very loud.''
>  73.  sniffing (1968) Guardian 22 Mar. 11/2, ``I asked her what
>      attraction there was in `sniffing'. ''
>  74.  sniffing (1977) Lancet 8 Jan. 84/1 ``Investigation of the 42
>      patients..showed that `sniffing' was a group activity involving
>      mainly adolescents aged 12-19 years, all of whom had a previous
>      history of solvent abuse.''
>  75.  sniffing (1899) Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 870 ``Obstructive
>      diseases of the nose..occasion sniffing movements of the face.
>      ''
>  76.  sniffing (1975) Weekend Mag. (Montreal) 8 Feb. 23/1 ``In any
>      case, legislation doesn't eliminate the sniffing problem which
>      is nation-wide. ''
>  77.  sniffing (1831) Carlyle Sart. Res. i. x, ``To him thou, with
>      sniffing charity, wilt protrusively proffer thy hand-lamp. ''
>  78.  sniffing (1837) Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. i. x, ``What a humour the
>      once sniffing mocking City of Paris..had got into.''
>  79.  sniffing (1873) Bayne in Contemp. Rev. XXI. 411 ``He glances
>      at Cromwell's speeches jauntily, sniffingly, in a mood of
>      pleasant indifference dashed by cynicism. ''
>  80.  sniffing (1893) K. Grahame in National Observer 23 Sept. 487/1
>      ``Charlotte turned away sniffingly.''
>  81.  sniffle (1825) Jamieson Suppl., ``Sniffles, that difficulty of
>      breathing through the nostrils, which is caused by cold in the
>      head. ''
>  82.  sniffle (1903) A. Adams Log Cowboy xviii. 279, ``I hope you
>      won't get the sniffles and tell any [sc. gloomy tales].''
>  83.  sniffle (1880) Meredith Trag. Com. (1881) 195 ```You have been
>      a little weak,' the phantom said to her, and she acquiesced
>      with a soft sniffle. ''
>  84.  sniffle (1885) Martineau Types Eth. Th. (1886) II. i. v. 174
>      ``A curve in the nose, a colour of the hair, a sniffle in the
>      voice.''
>  85.  sniffle (1805) J. Austin in Trans. Soc. Arts XXIII. 242 ``An
>      universal ravel or sniffle, useful at the beaming of all kinds
>      of webs. This machine is of itself complete, and will beam from
>      the coarsest to the finest web.''
>  86.  sniffle (1819) Scott Leg. Montr. xiv, ``So saying,
>      and..sniffling a little to swallow his grief, he turned from
>      the heart-rending spectacle. ''
>  87.  sniffle (1846) Landor Imag. Conv. Wks. 1853 II. 228/2 ``He
>      does not sniffle: to my ears he speaks plain English. ''
>  88.  sniffle (1883) L. A. Lambert Notes on Ingersoll vi. 57 ``And
>      yet you sniffle that He killed art.''
>  89.  sniffle (1885) Runciman Skippers &. Shellbacks 143 ``About
>      nine it began to sniffle and blow a bit.''
>  90.  sniffler (1833) M. Scott Tom Cringle viii, ``At length the
>      sniffler reached us, and the sharp little vessel began to
>      speak. ''
>  91.  sniffler (1891) Cent. Dict., ``Sniffler, a capful of wind.''
>  92.  sniffler (1887) W. S. Gilbert Ruddigore ii, ``Sniffler,
>      snuffler, wailer, weeper.''
>  93.  sniffling (1653) Clarke Papers (Camden) III. 6 ``This answer
>      not satisfying them they went to the Councell of State with
>      another peticion, where they had much more sniffling but went
>      away free men. ''
>  94.  sniffling (1836) Howard R. Reefer xiii, ``You will..oblige me
>      by not taking snuff.., the sniffling is abominable. ''
>  95.  sniffling (1840) Thackeray Catherine ii, ``The tip of her nose
>      as red as fire with sniffling and weeping. ''
>  96.  sniffling (1873) B. Harte Fiddletown 13 ``There now-stop that
>      sniffling.''
>  97.  sniffling (1654) Gayton Pleas. Notes iv. ii. 181
>      ``Notwithstanding his sniffeling example of Amadis Du Gaull, or
>      any other puling Knight. ''
>  98.  sniffling (1833) Marryat P. Simple xlvii, ``When you were a
>      little spalpeen, with a sniffling nose. ''
>  99.  sniffling (1890) Mrs. Barr Friend Olivia xiv, ``A pretty crowd
>      of sniffling, sneaking varlets he has been feeding and
>      pampering!''
> 100.  sniffly (1927) W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 59 ``They vary in
>      intensity from the sniffling or sniffly cold to the
>      church&dubh.yard cough! ''
>   1.  sniffly (1929) G. Ade Let. 8 Feb. (1973) 139 ``The warm
>      weather will be welcome. Most of us have sniffly colds.
>      Otherwise we are all right. ''
>   2.  sniffly (1960) Guardian 9 Apr. 6/6 ``We sat there in the bare
>      little room, wet and sniffly with sentiment. ''
>   3.  sniffly (1966) R. H. Rimmer Harrad Experiment (1967) 79 ``Get
>      out your handkerchiefs, wipe your sniffly nose. ''
>   4.  sniffy (1871) C. Gibbon Lack of Gold xx, ``Her curt sniffy
>      manner did not alter in the least. ''
>   5.  sniffy (1896) Westm. Gaz. 4 Dec. 2/1 ``When Lothair's sniffy I
>      keep out of his way.''
>   6.  sniffy (1915) W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxiv. 382 ``You
>      were rather sniffy about meeting him. ''
>   7.  sniffy (1925) S. Baring-Gould Further Reminisc. iv. 45 ``Their
>      wives were especially sniffy towards Mrs Jervis. ''
>   8.  sniffy (1965) Listener 3 June 834/3 ``He was catty about
>      Balzac, sniffy about Stendhal, stuffy about Flaubert, and cagey
>      about Baudelaire. ''
>   9.  sniffy (1979) Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts July 511/1 ``Sniffy comments
>      of a patronizing nature about Victorian buildings so
>      regrettably sprinkled throughout earlier books in The Buildings
>      of England are carefully avoided.''
>  10.  sniffy (1900) Kipling Just So Stories (1902) 108 ```What will
>      happen if I do? said the Jaguar, most sniffily and most
>      cautious. ''
>  11.  sniffy (1927) Blackw. Mag. Dec. 834/1, ``I didn't think
>      sniffiness was usual under the circumstances. ''
>  12.  sniffy (1928) M. Neville Kiss Proof xviii. 163 ```Oh, if
>      that's the way you feel about it,' Toddles said sniffily. ''
>  13.  sniffy (1933) G. Orwell Let. June (1968) I. 121 ``There is
>      also a certain sniffish `I told you so' implication. ''
>  14.  sniffy (1968) M. Collis Somerville &. Ross iii. 45 ``In her
>      Irish Memories (published in 1917) Edith, recalling that time,
>      writes of the sniffyness of her brothers and uncles. ''
>  15.  sniffy (1973) Guardian 30 June 11/3 ```He wasn't up to much as
>      a sub-editor,' said one of the older hacks, sniffily. ''
>  16.  sniffy (1981) Economist 24 Jan. 22/2 ``Although for the past
>      two years the United States has been Algeria's largest trading
>      partner, the relationship between the two countries has been
>      marked by a suspicious sniffiness.''
>  17.  snifter (1808) Jamieson, ``Snifters, a stoppage of the
>      nostrils from cold, which occasions frequent sniffing. ''
>  18.  snore (1898) C. Spence Poems 57 ``He [a bull]..roared and
>      bored and sniffed and snored.''
>  19.  snort (1935) A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 110/1 ``Snort, to
>      sniff cocaine or heroin. ''
>  20.  snort (1974) M. C. Gerald Pharmacol. xv. 291 ``Cocaine is
>      usually administered intravenously, although some prefer to
>      `sniff' or `snort' it. ''
>  21.  snow (1915) Policeman's Monthly Dec. 17/3 ``One day, his pal
>      found him depressed and told him to take a little sniff of
>      `snow', as heroin is known to the vernacular of the criminal.
>      ''
>  22.  snuff (1844) Hood The Turtles 34 ``All whiffs, and sniffs, and
>      puffs, and snuffs, From metals, minerals, and dyewood stuffs.''
>  23.  snuff (1872) Huxley Physiol. viii. 197 ``When we wish to
>      perceive a faint odour more distinctly, we sniff, or snuff up
>      the air.''
>  24.  solvent (1977) Lancet 8 Jan. 82/1 ``Cardiac
>      arrhythmias,..neuropsychiatric disorders, and hepatorenal
>      failure have all been reported after solvent sniffing. ''
>  25.  stark (1838) Barham Ingol. Leg. Ser. i. Nurse's Story, ``But,
>      ere he can vent one inquisitive sniff, That little pug-dog
>      stands stark and stiff. ''
>  26.  stopple (1865) E. C. Clayton Cruel Fortune II. 289
>      ``Mademoiselle Marie took up the phial,..extracted the stopple,
>      sniffed at the contents, then replaced the stopple.''
>  27.  strobe (1982) Observer 12 Dec. 26/3 ``Don't blink, don't
>      sniff, don't stick your chin up, don't slouch, don't wave your
>      hands about, don't wear stripes (they `strobe'), look at the
>      person you're talking to, smile.''
>  28.  suede (1979) J. W. Day in East Anglian Mag. Aug. 531/2 ``None
>      of your suede-footed, whey-faced, sniffling little
>      intellectuals. ''
>  29.  sugar (1979) Observer 25 Nov. 4/1 ``Detectives call them the
>      `sugar people' and they are young, rich and blue-blooded. They
>      are also heroin addicts. It is in an ironic double reference to
>      the `sugar daddy' parents and to the expensive white powder
>      they inject or sniff.''
>  30.  summer (1975) Times 19 Apr. 9/2 ``Kathy had been in bed with a
>      so-called summer cold..sniffling and sneezing. ''
>  31.  tablet (1973) R. Parkes Guardians ii. 59 ``This heroin is
>      comparable in quality to that being sniffed by U.S. troops in
>      Vietnam and far superior to that being tableted for U.K.
>      distribution.''
>  32.  thumbful (1930) E. Pound XXX Cantos xxii. 109 ``He..pulled out
>      his snuff-box, And sniffed up a thumb-full. ''
>  33.  ticket (1899) Kipling Stalky &. Co. 45 ``Why, last month you
>      and Beetle sold mine [sc. a watch]! 'Never got a sniff of any
>      ticket.''
>  34.  tissue (1976) M. &. G. Gordon Ordeal (1977) 142 ``Sniffling,
>      he asked Penny for a tissue. ''
>  35.  toot (1975) High Times Dec. 110/2 ``Counterculture advocates
>      of cocaine sniffing now have public confirmation of what
>      they've known for a long time: the chief drawbacks to tooting
>      coke are high costs and the law. ''
>  36.  townee (1960) W. Miller Russians as People 60 ``It is all
>      fascinating to the foreigner trying to sniff out `Russian
>      life', but to the townee Russian it is the shabby side of the
>      familiar. ''
>  37.  turn (1970) New Scientist 12 Nov. 314/1 ``Young people who
>      turn on by sniffing the vapour of airplane
>      glue..sometimes..drop dead. ''
>  38.  unreproduc(1899) Kipling Stalky 225 ``An unreproducible
>      sniff..rounded the retort. ''
>  39.  uppity (1982) R. Barnard Death &. Princess ii. 17 ``Joe may
>      appreciate my couthness..but he can sniff out uppitiness.''
>  40.  Vichyite (1978) Times 9 Jan. 8/5 ``Each school of thought has
>      its own pet profile of `Treasury Man', whether it be the
>      Institute of Economic Affairs seeing in him the symptoms of
>      chronic Keynesianism or the Tribune Group of left wing Labour
>      MPs sniffing for `Vichyite' collaborators with the
>      International Monetary Fund. ''
>  41.  walk (1888) J. S. Winter Bootle's Childr. ix, ``And then she
>      gave another sniff and walked off to the drawing-room again. ''
>  42.  Watergate (1982) M. Russell Rainblast xiii. 125 ``The damage
>      is done. Fleet Street gets the signal and..everyone's sniffing
>      the stench of another Watergate.''
>  43.  whiffle (1882) F. Anstey Vice Versa iv, ``This infernal
>      whiffling and sniffing, sir, I will not put up with. ''
>  44.  whister-cl(1883) Hampsh. Gloss., ``*Whister-sniff, a heavy
>      blow. ''
>  45.  wimmin (1938) Snow White &. Seven Dwarfs 31 ```Didn't I tell
>      you?' sniffed Grumpy. `She's crazy. Wimmin! Pah!' ''
>  46.  wind (1972) R. Crawford Whip Hand i. v. 22 ``Schuyler sniffed
>      the wind and took his time about it. ''
>  47.  wind (1974) D. Kyle Raft of Swords viii. 78 ```I have no
>      reason... I just know.' `You sniff the wind. Very sensible.
>      What do you smell?' ''
>  48.  wind (1977) Time 22 Aug. 5/2 ``Certainly the Labor government
>      and the nation's judiciary system are sniffing the wind.''
>  49.  wolvish (1954) J. R. R. Tolkien Fellowship of Ring iv. 101
>      ``Two wolvish-looking dogs sniffed at him suspiciously, and
>      snarled.''
>  50.  womens (1945) L. Saxon et al. Gumbo Ya-Ya i. 8 ```It's damn
>      funny' Fisher sniffed, `how womens is.' ''
>  51.  wound-down(1974) P. McCutchan Call for Simon Shard xii. 110
>      ``He sniffed through the wound-down window. ''
>  52.  wump (1934) R. Nichols Fisbo 31 ``Hail to thee, thou much
>      sniffed at by superior Persons and all wowsers, wumps and
>      knock-knees.''
>  53.  yechy (1983) Washington Post 23 Dec. 15/1 ``She goes on and on
>      about him in yecchy voice-overs: He was like `a licorice
>      billygoat sniffing the wind for sexual sweat'.''