re-sniff

English

Verb

re-sniff (third-person singular simple present re-sniffs, present participle re-sniffing, simple past and past participle re-sniffed)

1. Alternative form of resniff
   • 1946, Rupert Croft-Cooke, Ladies Gay, page 13:

     And to this day he claims to recall, to re-sniff the smell of fruit and vegetables as he approached that shop, more pungent, he thought, than that of an English fruiterer's.

   • 2012, Felicia Joy Devine, This Walk Ain't Easy!: But, Help Is Along The Way, →ISBN, page 300:

     Baby T and Abraham come back into the window and Abraham is like real shook up and I'm not really paying too much attention to that cause I'm getting ready to get high now, I need to re-sniff another bag.

Anagrams

• niffers, sniffer