Sniff

Definition

sniff /snÇf/ v ၁။ ႏွာ႐ႈပ္သည္။ They all had colds and kept sniffing and sneezing. ၂။ (က) ~ (at) sth ႐ႉသည္။ နမ္း သည္။ sniff the sea air ❍ The dog was sniffing at the lamppost. (ခ) ~ sth (up) (ႏွာေခါင္းက)႐ႉသြင္းသည္။ He sniffed the vapour up (through his nose). (ဂ) ( infml ) (မူးယစ္ေဆးဝါး စသည္) ႐ႉသည္။ sniff glue. ၃။ (က) ငိုမဲ့မဲ့ေျပာသည္။ ‘Nobody understands me,’ he sniffed. (ခ) (မာနသံႏွင့္၊ မႏွစ္သက္ဟန္ႏွင့္) မဲ့မဲ့ရြဲ႕ရြဲ႕ေျပာသည္။ ‘I think you're all disgusting,’ she sniffed. n ၁။ ႏွာ႐ႈပ္ျခင္း။ ယင္းအသံ။ တစ္႐ႉ၊ တစ္႐ိႈက္။ 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 ) … အနံ႔အသက္ရသည္ႏွင့္။ They retreated at the first sniff of trouble. ❏ sniff at sth [ PHRV ] ဂ႐ုမစိုက္၊ အထင္ေသးသည္။ I wouldn't sniff at the chance of a job, whatever it was. ❏ sniff sb out [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (လူ)ရွာေဖြေဖာ္ထုတ္သည္။ sniff out the culprit ❍ The police were determined to sniff out the ringleaders. ❏ sniffer-dog n ( infml ) အနံ႔ခံေခြး။

Examples

1. Amanda sniffed and wiped her nose.
2. ‘It wasn’t my fault!’ he sniffed.
3. [sniff at] : Henry sniffed at the flowers appreciatively.
4. [sniff at] : Critics tend to sniff at his music.