asnort

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English

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Etymology

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From a- +‎ snort.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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asnort (not comparable)

  1. Snorting.
    • 1948, Marjorie Holmes, Ten o'clock scholar, page 156:
      A chair had already been pushed against the girls' locker room door. Whispering, almost asnort with stealthy expectation, two of the boys climbed up.
    • 2001, Wesley Hall, The Hooligan Navy: A True Story about the Old Coast Guard, page 163:
      Even though it was still short of lights-out by two hours, the enlisted men's quarters was abuzz and asnort with the sounds of sleeping men when I dragged my seabag through the hatchway.

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