snort

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)t

Noun

snort (plural snorts)

1. The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
2. (slang) A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco). A snort also may be a drink of whiskey, as "Let's have a snort".

Translations

sound made by exhaling roughly through the nose

• Dutch: snuiven (nl)
• Finnish: korskahdus (fi)
• French: reniflement (fr) m
• Russian: фырканье (ru) (fýrkan'je) n

• Scottish Gaelic: srannartaich (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian: šmrkanje (sh) n
• Spanish: resoplar (es)

dose of drug to be snorted

• Finnish: nuuhkaus (fi), viiva (fi)

Verb

snort (third-person singular simple present snorts, present participle snorting, simple past and past participle snorted)

1. (intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
2. (transitive)(slang) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.

Translations

to exhale roughly through the nose

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哼 (cmn) (hēng)

• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: korskua (fi)
• French: renifler (fr)
• German: schnupfen (de), schnauben (de)
• Hungarian: tüsszent (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can

• Ido: snortar (io)
• Interlingue: sofflar (ie)
• Japanese: 鳴らす (ja) (ならす, narasu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: parskać (pl)
• Portuguese: resfolegar (pt)
• Russian: фыркать (ru) (fýrkat’) impf., фыркнуть (ru) (fýrknut’) pf.
• Serbo-Croatian: šmrkati (sh)

to inhale (usually a drug) through the nose

• Finnish: nuuskata (fi), (slang) sniffata (fi)
• German: schnupfen (de)
• Italian: sniffare (it)
• Portuguese: cheirar (pt)

• Russian: вдыхать (ru) (vdyxát’) (наркотики) impf., вдохнуть (ru) (vdoxnút’) pf.
• Serbo-Croatian: ušmrtkati (sh)
• Spanish: esnifar (es)

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Dutch

Verb

snort

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of snorren
2. plural imperative of snorren