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sniff

/snɪf/

US pronunciation
American sound/snɪf/
sniff
Syllables
1 syllable
Stress
One strong syllable
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

US voice -> sniff

Myanmar meaning

(v) နှာရှုပ်သည်။ ကရှူသည်။ နမ်းသည်။ ခနှာခေါင်းကရှူသွင်းသည်။ ဂမူးယစ်ဆေးဝါးစသည်ရှူသည်။ (က) ငိုမဲ့မဲ့ပြောသည်။ (ခ) မာနသံနှင့်၊မနှစ်သက်ဟန်နှင့်မဲ့မဲ့ရွဲ့ရွဲ့ပြောသည်။ နှာရှုပ်ခြင်း။ ယင်းအသံ။ တစ်ရှူ၊တစ်ရှိုက်။ အနံ့အသက်ရသည်နှင့်။ ဂရုမစိုက်၊အထင်သေးသည်။ လူရှာဖွေဖော်ထုတ်သည်။ အနံ့ခံခွေး။

Full entry

sniff /snÇf/ v

၁။ နှာရှုပ်သည်။ They all had colds and kept sniffing and sneezing.
၂။ (က) ~ (at) sth ရှူသည်။ နမ်း သည်။ sniff the sea air ❍ The dog was sniffing at the lamppost. (ခ) ~ sth (up) (နှာခေါင်းက)ရှူသွင်းသည်။ He sniffed the vapour up (through his nose). (ဂ) (infml ) (မူးယစ်ဆေးဝါး စသည်) ရှူသည်။ sniff glue.
၃။ (က) ငိုမဲ့မဲ့ပြောသည်။ ‘Nobody understands me,’ he sniffed. (ခ) (မာနသံနှင့်၊ မနှစ်သက်ဟန်နှင့်) မဲ့မဲ့ရွဲ့ရွဲ့ပြောသည်။ ‘I think you're all disgusting,’ she sniffed.
n
၁။ နှာရှုပ်ခြင်း။ ယင်းအသံ။ တစ်ရှူ၊ တစ်ရှိုက်။ tearful sniffs ❍ get a sniff of sea air ❍ One sniff of this is enough to kill you. ❍ ‘I'm going,’ she said with a sniff.
၂။ (usu sing ) ~ of sth (infml ) … အနံ့အသက်ရသည်နှင့်။ They retreated at the first sniff of trouble.
❏ sniff at sth [PHRV ] ဂရုမစိုက်၊ အထင်သေးသည်။ I wouldn't sniff at the chance of a job, whatever it was.
❏ sniff sb out [PHRV ] (infml ) (လူ)ရှာဖွေဖော်ထုတ်သည်။ sniff out the culprit ❍ The police were determined to sniff out the ringleaders.
❏ sniffer-dog n (infml ) အနံ့ခံခွေး။

More examples
  • Amanda sniffed and wiped her nose.
  • ‘It wasn’t my fault!’ he sniffed.
  • [sniff at] : Henry sniffed at the flowers appreciatively.
  • [sniff at] : Critics tend to sniff at his music.
Synonyms
inhale, breathe in, snuffle, breath, breathe, detect, inhalation, inspire, lungful, nose, scent, smell, snift, snort, snuff
Antonyms
exhale, hold nose
Cross references
inhalebreathe insnufflebreathbreathedetectinhalationinspirelungfulnosescentsmellsniftsnortsnuffexhalehold noseairallandchanceculpritdogenoughfirstgetgluegoing
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