What's the difference between snaffle and snuffle?

Snaffle


Definition:

  • (n.) A kind of bridle bit, having a joint in the part to be placed in the mouth, and rings and cheek pieces at the ends, but having no curb; -- called also snaffle bit.
  • (v. t.) To put a snaffle in the mouth of; to subject to the snaffle; to bridle.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) 4.44pm BST O'Sullivan's safety has not be up to much today, and he leaves a red that Selby snaffles, followed by a green and red, almost screwing back the cue ball into the left middle.
  • (2) It means improving the schools that deprived kids are in already, rather than promising new ones and being surprised when sharper-elbowed parents snaffle the places.
  • (3) 88 min: Now Endo takes a swipe from distance, Souleymanou spilling but later snaffling.
  • (4) After each attack, the sharks swam round in a gentle arc and returned to the spot to snaffle the stunned and dead sardines.
  • (5) Broad's not bowled well today, but he tempts Sangakkara with slight width - and Sangakkara flashes, toe-ending to gully, where Bell dives low and left to snaffle an excellent catch.
  • (6) But after opening up the last reds, he's clumsy again and leaves a red to the top left which Selby snaffles up.
  • (7) Eventually a ball's pinged down the inside-right channel for Robben, but it's got far too much weight on it and Julio Cesar comes out to snaffle.
  • (8) If I'm home in Kent, I feed my two spaniels, have a cup of tea and defend my digestive biscuits from being snaffled by my crafty dogs.
  • (9) In came a giant private company, "partnered" Rosemary's charity, ruined it, snaffled up a much bigger grant than Rosemary had, hired staff on the cheap with one weekend's training, and sacked Rosemary (a psychotherapist with decades of experience), who perhaps didn't put up as much of a fight as she could have done, because she was weakened at the time by an infected broken ankle, so trudging up and down long prison corridors wasn't easy.
  • (10) His low shot towards the near post is easily snaffled by De Gea.
  • (11) Vaunting an enviable quality of life and a sizeable finance sector of 180,000 workers, Paris, home to some of Europe’s largest banks and the Euronext Paris stock exchange, hopes to snaffle 20,000 City jobs , its lobby group Europlace said.
  • (12) Januzaj steps up - and sees his quick prod down the middle snaffled by Mannone.
  • (13) The same formula remains in active use: clubs who sent scouts to this year’s South American Under-17 Championship in Paraguay found they had turned up too late to snaffle its star and top scorer, the 16-year-old Ponte Preta forward Leandro.
  • (14) It’s more government money thrown at London, this time on a vanity project, when the capital already snaffles so much spending on new infrastructure.
  • (15) The throngs who snaffled free, highly sought tickets for his parade through Central Park, gave lucrative business to the hawkers of papal kitsch: $5 for badges, $10 for T-shirts and tote bags.
  • (16) If so, then you won’t mind me snaffling a few bottles and reselling them out in the street at a 400% mark-up!
  • (17) Radoslaw Sikorski says Cameron has alienated potential allies by indulging the irreconcilable Europhobes in his party and by permitting the routine depiction of migrants to the UK from eastern Europe as welfare-snaffling parasites.
  • (18) He'd already enjoyed some success, having "fallen into an acting class" when he was 17, and then snaffled the role of Danny Byrne on the BBC series Ballykissangel .
  • (19) It's pretty lame, all told, Neuer snaffling it into his arms with ease.
  • (20) But none of these shows has enjoyed the stellar ratings of Miranda, the sitcom which was snaffled by BBC1 after two series on BBC2.

Snuffle


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To speak through the nose; to breathe through the nose when it is obstructed, so as to make a broken sound.
  • (n.) The act of snuffing; a sound made by the air passing through the nose when obstructed.
  • (n.) An affected nasal twang; hence, cant; hypocrisy.
  • (n.) Obstruction of the nose by mucus; nasal catarrh of infants or children.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The present results suggested that these P. multocida isolates were the causal agent of rabbits rhinitis (snuffles) in Japan.
  • (2) Inside was the world's biggest map, depicting all of New York state, laid out in sparkling terrazzo, across which troupes of acrobats and dancers would perform, and the animals of the kiddies' petting zoo would snuffle.
  • (3) In a double-blind study, diphenylpyraline (Lergobine) was given to 63 patients whose main symptoms were stuffiness of the nose, increased secretion of mucus, snuffling, sneezing and redness of the eyes.
  • (4) The younger infants had a higher incidence of jaundice and mortality, whereas joint swellings, skin rash, snuffles, anemia, and periosteal reaction visible in x-rays of long bones were typical findings among the older group.
  • (5) So, I will have to continue trudging down to one or other of the local hospitals for treatment, and get the snuffles, or worse, on the way.
  • (6) With silhouetted palms at sunset, capybaras bathing in streams, vivid birdlife and viscachas (a type of chinchilla) snuffling around the site at dusk, it’s a photographers’ paradise.
  • (7) "And Ben," notes his wife, indicating the spaniel snuffling at their feet.
  • (8) You are in the system, safe from the unregulated badlands of Nickelodeon and its oceans of advertising, the looping hours of Peppa Pig and American imports that run through the night so that other, feral children (not yours) can watch cartoons at 2am while snuffling from bowls of refined sugar.
  • (9) The other day I had a bit of a snuffle and Justine thought it wouldn’t be a good idea for me to go for a walk in Primrose Hill.
  • (10) The presence of "snuffles" has traditionally been ascribed, unproven, to an upper respiratory tract infection despite there being no other signs of an acute infection in the majority of infants with "snuffles".
  • (11) A counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) test was applied to serotype 35 isolates of type D Pasteurella multocida recovered from 32 cases of atrophic rhinitis (in swine) and 3 cases of snuffles (in rabbits).
  • (12) She has some new bogeymen – shareholders – and is so determined they won't get a groat of her money, that she's sitting snuffling and shivering in her kitchen, by the hob, on the cusp of pneumonia, refusing to turn on her heating.
  • (13) The previously well-known snuffles, pseudoparalysis and bizarre radiological changes should now be brought to the attention of perhaps more than one generation of physicians who underwent their medical training at the time when the disease was a rarity.
  • (14) The presence of excess nasal mucus causing noisy nasal breathing with an obvious mucus discharge (snuffles) is a common problem in infants in the first three months of life.
  • (15) The results suggest that in some infants "snuffles" may be associated with impaired vasomotor control.
  • (16) Pigs snuffle at the detritus littering its margins.
  • (17) Four of fifty infants in the control group compared to 22 of 50 in the snuffles group demonstrated postural hypotension (Chi square 16.84, p less than 0.001).
  • (18) snuffles and being "chesty") in well infants during the first months of life with 32% of the control group having snuffles and 35% described as "chesty".
  • (19) At night, if I hear him snuffle or whimper in his cot, I sneak over using an iPhone as an impromptu light source so I can see if he needs resettling.
  • (20) Hepatic and splenic enlargement were present in 12 cases, and nine children had the "snuffles".