sniff
transitive verb
ulir
EN Because I remember --sniffing, you know-- just when I was talking about the utter washout Stalin's Five Year Plan was turning out.
GL Porque lembro que... que o ulín... que o ulín cando estabamos a falar do fracaso total do Plano Quinquenal de Stalin.
Fonte: ASA (3004)
uliscar
EN The great rooms caused so much poetry and history to press upon him that he needed some straying apart to feel in a proper relation with them, though this impulse was not, as happened, like the gloating of some of his companions, to be compared to the movements of a dog sniffing a cupboard.
GL As amplas estancias evocábanlle tanta poesía e tanta historia que precisaba afastarse dos demais para establecer unha relación apropiada con elas, aínda que o seu modo de facelo, a dicir verdade, non era coma a maneira de recrearse dalgúns dos seus compañeiros, comparable ós movementos dun can uliscando unha despensa.
Fonte: BES (8)
nifrar
EN Readers wait for that to happen; they wait for Sherlock Holmes to play the violin or start sniffing.
GL O público está a agardar que iso chegue, que Sherlock Holmes toque o violín ou que nifre droga.
Fonte: C01 (1242)
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