1. sniff - Noun
2. sniff - Verb
3. sniff - Interjection
To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; -- sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.
To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.
To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.
The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.
Source: Webster's dictionaryDialectical materialism works like cocaine, let's say. If you sniff it once or twice, it may not change your life. If you use it day after day, though, it will make you into an addict, a different man. Nicolae Ceaușescu
Do we really have to wander around apologizing for enjoying plot, just because James Wood and a few dozen other arch-aesthetes sniff at it? It's like being careful not to sing pop songs in the shower because some guy in the local alt-weekly is a music snob. Patrick Nielsen Hayden
I have been able to sniff out a phony. Jennifer Coolidge
I also have the impression that many women have been able, instinctively, to sniff out this loneliness of mine, which I confided to no one, and this in later years was to become one of the causes of my being taken advantage of. Osamu Dazai
I, too, often shrivel the grey shreds, Sniff them and think and sniff again and try Once more to think what it is I am remembering, Always in vain. I cannot like the scent, Yet I would rather give up others more sweet, With no meaning, than this bitter one. Edward Thomas (poet)
A mouse that wants to die goes to sniff the cat's nose. Ethiopian Proverb