ppl. a. [f. SNAFFLE v.3] Snuffling; speaking through the nose.
a. 1585. Montgomerie, Flyting, 569. Contagious cankers carues his snafling snout.
1620. Shelton, Quix., III. vi. I. 164. He stopt his nose very well between his Fingers, and then said with a Snaffling voice.
1651. Lilly, Chas. I. (1774), 211. An obstinate King, wholly led by the nose by these snaffling Priests.
a. 1668. Lassels, Voy. Italy (1698), II. 135. The snaffling fellow … will tell you another story of this statue through the nose.
1793. Southey, Juv. & Minor P., Chapel Bell. The snuffling, snaffling Fellow’s nasal tone.
1805. in ‘Geo. Paston,’ Side-lights Georgian Period (1902), 251. Such a little snaffling man, if I may use the expression, I hardly ever heard.
