asnort

English

Etymology

a- +‎ snort

Adjective

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.

Anagrams

• Sarton, astron., nostra, orants, rotans, torans