resniff

English

Alternative forms

• re-sniff

Etymology

From re- +‎ sniff.

Verb

resniff (third-person singular simple present resniffs, present participle resniffing, simple past and past participle resniffed)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To sniff again.
   • 1973, Norman Cleaveland, Bang! Bang! in Ampang: Dredging Tin During Malaya's "emergency.":

     This apparently left the Colonial Office unmoved for it merely resniffed that no guns could be supplied from Great Britain because treaties with Egypt prevented guns from being shipped through the Suez Canal and that all available R.A.F. planes were engaged in the Berlin Airlift.

   • 2010, Alexandra Horowitz, Inside of a Dog: What Dogs See, Smell, and Know, →ISBN:

     She'd hop around, resniff the smell from different angles, then take a tentative swipe at it, upending a dollop of turf.

   • 2013, Barbara Herman, Scent and Subversion: Decoding a Century of Provocative Perfume, →ISBN:

     But like smoothing down velvet to watch it change color from light to dark,I notice as I reapply and resniff Sous le Vent that its complexity comes through with spicy, powdery carnation and the inimitable Guerlain vanilla touched with amber.

Anagrams

• niffers, sniffer