See sniff on Wiktionary
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"(ambitransitive) To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something; to smell (something).",
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"(figurative) To be dismissive or contemptuous of something; used with at."
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"code": "eo",
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"word": "ekmovi la nazon"
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"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to be dismissive or contemptuous",
"word": "nyrpistellä"
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"text": "I don't know, of course, what your precious Radicals are planning to do, and I don't want to know; but I can sniff trouble in the air, nevertheless.",
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"To perceive vaguely."
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"(by extension, transitive) To perceive vaguely."
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"sense": "to perceive vaguely",
"word": "haistaa"
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{
"_dis1": "2 2 2 2 89 1 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to perceive vaguely",
"word": "aavistaa"
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"sense": "to perceive vaguely",
"word": "odorare"
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"word": "txera"
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"text": "COOMBE: He got the clinch only last week — eighteen months. You see it's no good having anybody here as ain't got a^([sic]) unblemished character. We don't want to have the bluebottles come sniffing round here, do we?",
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"engineering",
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"code": "fi",
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"word": "nuuskia"
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"Canada",
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
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{
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"Canada",
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
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"note": "Queensland",
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"code": "hy",
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"roman": "fsfsal",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "ֆսֆսալ"
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{
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"lang_code": "hy",
"roman": "pʻnčʻacʻnel",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "փնչացնել"
},
{
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"code": "hy",
"english": "to smell",
"lang": "Armenian",
"lang_code": "hy",
"roman": "hototel",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"translation": "to smell",
"word": "հոտոտել"
},
{
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"code": "ast",
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"lang_code": "ast",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "golifar"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "ast",
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"lang_code": "ast",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "goliflar"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "ast",
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"lang_code": "ast",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "golifliar"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"lang_code": "ast",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "golifiar"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "ast",
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"lang_code": "ast",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "goliscar"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "ast",
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"lang_code": "ast",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "golfatiar"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"lang_code": "ast",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "golitrar"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"lang_code": "ast",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "golispiar"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"lang_code": "ast",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "golismiar"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "ast",
"lang": "Asturian",
"lang_code": "ast",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "golimiar"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "az",
"lang": "Azerbaijani",
"lang_code": "az",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "burnunu çəkmək"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "be",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"lang_code": "be",
"roman": "njúxacʹ",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
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},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "be",
"english": "to sniff noisily",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"lang_code": "be",
"roman": "šmórhacʹ",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"translation": "to sniff noisily",
"word": "шмо́ргаць"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "duša",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "душа"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "pomirisvam",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "помирисвам"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "ca",
"lang": "Catalan",
"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "ensumar"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "xiù",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "嗅"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "cmn",
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"lang_code": "cmn",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "闻"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "čichat"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"lang_code": "cs",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "čmuchat"
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{
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"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "flari"
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{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "eo",
"lang": "Esperanto",
"lang_code": "eo",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "ekflari"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"english": "once",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"translation": "once",
"word": "nuuhkaista"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "nuuhkia"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"lang_code": "fi",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "nuuskia (repetitively)"
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{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "renifler"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"lang_code": "gl",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "nifrar"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "schnüffeln"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"lang_code": "de",
"note": "for reptiles",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "züngeln"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "szippant"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "szimatol"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "izh",
"lang": "Ingrian",
"lang_code": "izh",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "haissella"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "annusare"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "fiutare"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"alt": "かぐ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"lang_code": "ja",
"roman": "kagu",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "嗅ぐ"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"lang_code": "kk",
"roman": "iyiskew",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "иіскеу"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"lang_code": "km",
"roman": "hət",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "ហិត"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"lang_code": "lo",
"roman": "sư̄p kin",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "ສືບກິ່ນ"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "šmrka",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "шмрка"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Māori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "whakamono"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Māori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "pihongi"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"lang_code": "mn",
"roman": "ünerlex",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "үнэрлэх"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"lang_code": "mn",
"roman": "šinšix",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "шинших"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"lang_code": "mn",
"roman": "turgix",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "тургих"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"lang_code": "nrf",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "r'niflier"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "pl",
"english": "smell about",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"translation": "smell about",
"word": "węszyć"
},
{
"_dis1": "20 20 20 20 20 0 1",
"code": "pl",
"english": "smell",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"translation": "smell",
"word": "niuchać"
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"word": "ֆսֆսալ"
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "golispiar"
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "golimiar"
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "burnunu çəkmək"
},
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"lang_code": "be",
"roman": "njúxacʹ",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"word": "ню́хаць"
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"code": "be",
"english": "to sniff noisily",
"lang": "Belarusian",
"lang_code": "be",
"roman": "šmórhacʹ",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"tags": [
"imperfective"
],
"translation": "to sniff noisily",
"word": "шмо́ргаць"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
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"roman": "duša",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "душа"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"lang_code": "bg",
"roman": "pomirisvam",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "помирисвам"
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"lang_code": "ca",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "ensumar"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"roman": "xiù",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "嗅"
},
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"lang_code": "cmn",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "闻"
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"translation": "once",
"word": "nuuhkaista"
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"word": "nuuskia (repetitively)"
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "renifler"
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "nifrar"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "schnüffeln"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"note": "for reptiles",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "züngeln"
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"lang_code": "hu",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
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{
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "haissella"
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"code": "it",
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"lang_code": "it",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "annusare"
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"code": "it",
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "fiutare"
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"roman": "kagu",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "嗅ぐ"
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{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"lang_code": "kk",
"roman": "iyiskew",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "иіскеу"
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{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"lang_code": "km",
"roman": "hət",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "ហិត"
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{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"lang_code": "lo",
"roman": "sư̄p kin",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "ສືບກິ່ນ"
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{
"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"lang_code": "mk",
"roman": "šmrka",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "шмрка"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Māori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "whakamono"
},
{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Māori",
"lang_code": "mi",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "pihongi"
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{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"lang_code": "mn",
"roman": "ünerlex",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "үнэрлэх"
},
{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
"lang_code": "mn",
"roman": "šinšix",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "шинших"
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{
"code": "mn",
"lang": "Mongolian",
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"roman": "turgix",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "тургих"
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{
"code": "nrf",
"lang": "Norman",
"lang_code": "nrf",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "r'niflier"
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{
"code": "pl",
"english": "smell about",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"translation": "smell about",
"word": "węszyć"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"english": "smell",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"translation": "smell",
"word": "niuchać"
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{
"code": "pl",
"english": "make noises because of a runny nose",
"lang": "Polish",
"lang_code": "pl",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"translation": "make noises because of a runny nose",
"word": "pociągać nosem"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "farejar"
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{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"lang_code": "pt",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "fungar"
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{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"lang_code": "qu",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"word": "sinq'ay"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "šmýgatʹ",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"tags": [
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"word": "шмы́гать"
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{
"code": "ru",
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"lang_code": "ru",
"roman": "šmygnútʹ",
"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"tags": [
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"word": "шмыгну́ть"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"lang_code": "ru",
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
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"word": "ню́хать"
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "поню́хать"
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"code": "ru",
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
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"word": "приню́хиваться"
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
"tags": [
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"sense": "to make a short audible inhalation",
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"3": "sniffen"
},
"expansion": "Middle English sniffen",
"name": "inh"
},
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},
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"name": "onomatopoeic"
}
],
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"lang_code": "en",
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"categories": [
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
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138,
143
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"ref": "2009, Asterix and Obelix's Birthday: The Golden Book, page 28:",
"text": "a wild boar is laughing and Obelix is crying\nWild boar classified a protected species\nFirst reaction from dismayed costumers:\n“Boohoohoo! Sniff!”",
"type": "quotation"
}
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"A short inhalation sound, sometimes associated with crying."
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[
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"tags": [
"Australia",
"Canada",
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/snɪf/",
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"Australia",
"Canada",
"General-American",
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
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"audio": "En-au-sniff.ogg",
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"note": "Queensland",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/En-au-sniff.ogg"
},
{
"ipa": "/snəf/",
"tags": [
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]
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɪf"
}
],
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}
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"form": "sniffs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
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{
"args": {
"1": "m"
},
"expansion": "sniff m (plural sniffs)",
"name": "fr-noun"
}
],
"lang": "French",
"lang_code": "fr",
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{
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"Pages with 2 entries",
"Pages with entries"
],
"glosses": [
"sniff"
],
"links": [
[
"sniff",
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]
],
"qualifier": "recreational drugs",
"raw_glosses": [
"(recreational drugs) sniff"
],
"tags": [
"masculine"
]
}
],
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"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2f/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-sniff.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-sniff.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2f/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-sniff.wav/LL-Q150_%28fra%29-LoquaxFR-sniff.wav.ogg",
"tags": [
"France",
"Vosges"
]
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-sniff.wav",
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"tags": [
"France"
]
}
],
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}
Download raw JSONL data for sniff meaning in All languages combined (40.7kB)
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"msg": "''To make a short, audible inhal'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"sniff"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "verb",
"title": "sniff",
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