Snuffler - Tradução em português

Now his nose is less like a hatchet
Agora seu naris é menos parecido com uma machado de guerra/machadinha.

And more like a snuffler.
E mais parece um (nariz) funga-funga (ou talvez um focinho de cachorro, ou nariz de gato etc).


When it comes to poetry is difficult to know what kind of imagery the author meant, maybe he/she meant ''snuffle" as the "wiggling nose, from side to side, of rabbits" or "a dog snout". Sniffle is usually associated with something "a nose that is running , or almost". Perhaps that´s why there are rub ointments as Vicks Vaporub or Mentolatum, for that matter.
Anyway, from a hatchet to a mere snuffle (=sniffle) nose, it´s quite a downgrading.


From Google:
snif·fle
ˈsnifəl/
verb
verb: sniffle; 3rd person present: sniffles; past tense: sniffled; past participle: sniffled; gerund or present participle: sniffling

1.
sniff slightly or repeatedly, typically because of a cold or fit of crying.

noun
noun: sniffle; plural noun: sniffles

1.
an act of sniffing because of a cold or crying.
"he was restraining his sniffles rather well"


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Dictionary definition:
snuffle = sniffle

sniffle verb [ I ] ( also snuffle )
to breathe in quickly and repeatedly through the nose, usually because you are crying or because you have a cold
You're sniffling a lot today - have you got a cold?

Puxa, Paulo, muito obrigado!!!

Eu tbém tinha chegado a essas conclusões, mas ainda assim não fazia sentido pra mim o que seria um nariz que vai de um machadinho a um nariz fungador!

Na minha opinião, essa estrofe estragou o poema. A não ser que haja algum sentido cultural para um nariz ser como um machado...

Well, it´s all about poetry, but think harder of it.
A hatchet is a cousin of hammer, maybe the author went from a hammer shark nose, to a sniffler. Well, indeed maybe we never know...
It´s just the way poets are brains are misteriously wired, but then it may happen that we don´t have a piece of the jigsaw puzzle.

Anyway, I agree. To our mortal/ordinary brains, it causes a suspension of the thought, sort of.

Now that makes some sort of sense! I didn't think of the curious image of a hammerhead shark, which indeed seems to be surreal. And then it turns out to be a mere snuffing nose.

But, again, this strophe spoiled the poem!

What about the horns of the steer have grown straighter? Now we have a castrated bull whose horns' straitness refers to the friend's quietness

In a way, he acknowledges the weakness of his poetry, at the very end, by writing:


Is not as good as it used to be.
Everything else is better.


Just kidding, it works like music. Long ago I listened an English song and I was heartbroken, had been dumped by a girlfriend, and that song appeared and charmed me, it was like it talked about me.
Then one day..."By Night Translation", I was anxious to see what that pungent and lovely song was about.

Would be about some couple, somebody dumped and heartbroken like me? I sat on a stool and, by the radio, I listened that music and voilá "não dirija bêbado seu pingunço!" Oh, my! so much suffering for that? come on!
Then I figured I was in badly in need of some English classes!

Hmm, the piece of the jigsaw puzzle that was missing, now makes a lot more sense now! Thanks for the insight, Telma.

Realmente a questão cultural é decisiva para o sentido. Obrigado, Telma.

E ainda deve ter mais sentido o fato do chifre crescer mais reto. Quanto ao snuffer, suponho que isso se deva à velhice, à naturalidade da vulnerabilidade do organismo mais velho.

Poetry surprises are unstoppable!