Resniff

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To sniff again. ambitransitive

    "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."

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"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."

Etymology

From re- + sniff.

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