snort

English

Etymology

From Middle English snorten, an onomatopoeic variant of Middle English snoren, from Proto-Germanic *snarkjaną, *snarkōną.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /snɔɹt/

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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).
3. (slang) A consumed portion of alcoholic drink.
   • 1951, Indiana Historical Society Publications (volumes 16-17, page 157)

     Everybody tipped up the jug and took a snort of whisky and followed it with a gourd of cool water. We thought a snort of whisky now and then braced us up some and put a little more lift in us.

   • 1978, George G. Gilman, Edge: Red River, Pinnacle Books (1978), →ISBN, page 45:

     "It won't buy you any wine," Paxton told him.

     "I know that," the drunk replied in an insulted tone. "It's a pussy pass, ain't it?"

     Paxton grinned wearily. "How would you know that? You'd rather have a snort than a screw any day."

4. (nautical, Britain) A submarine snorkel.

Derived terms

• chortle
• snortle
• snorty

 

Translations

sound made by exhaling roughly through the nose

• Dutch: snuiven (nl)
• Finnish: korskahdus (fi)
• French: reniflement (fr) m
• Galician: runflada f, refolgo m, funxido m, esgorriada f
• German: Schnauben n
• Maori: kuruwhengu, peru, peru, horu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: fnys n

  Nynorsk: fnys n

• Romanian: pufăit (ro) n
• Russian: фы́рканье (ru) n (fýrkanʹje), шмы́ганье (ru) n (šmýganʹje)
• Scottish Gaelic: srannartaich f
• Serbo-Croatian: šmrkanje (sh) n
• Spanish: resoplar (es)
• Turkish: burnundan soluma

dose of drug to be snorted

• Finnish: nuuhkaus, viiva (fi)

• Russian: понюшка (ru) f (ponjuška)

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.

   She snorted with laughter.

2. (transitive) To express or force out by snorting.

   He snorted a derisory reply and turned on his heel.

3. (transitive, slang) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.

   to snort cocaine

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To snore.
   • Shakespeare

     the snorting citizens

5. (intransitive, nautical, of submarines) To sail at periscope depth through the use of a snort or snorkel.

Derived terms

• snortable
• snorter
• snorting
• snortingly

 

Translations

to exhale roughly through the nose

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 哼 (zh) (hēng)

• Faroese: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: korskua
• French: renifler (fr)
• German: schnupfen (de), schnauben (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: φρυάσσω (phruássō)

• Hungarian: tüsszent (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Ido: snortar (io)
• Interlingue: sofflar
• Japanese: 鳴らす (ならす, narasu)

• Khmer: ហិតខ្លាំងៗ (hət klaŋ klaŋ)
• Maori: whengu, horu, peru, horuhoru
• Polish: parskać (pl)
• Portuguese: resfolegar (pt)
• Romanian: pufăi (ro)
• Russian: фы́ркать (ru) impf (fýrkatʹ), фы́ркнуть (ru) pf (fýrknutʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: šmrkati (sh)
• Spanish: resoplar (es), bufar (es)
• Turkish: burnundan solumak (tr)
• Vietnamese: khịt (vi)
• Westrobothnian: fnus, fröös, snórk, snåårk

to inhale (usually a drug) through the nose

• Dutch: snuiven (nl)
• Finnish: nuuskata (fi), (slang) sniffata (fi)
• French: sniffer (fr)
• German: schnupfen (de)
• Italian: sniffare (it)
• Limburgish: snoeve (li)
• Portuguese: cheirar (pt)

• Romanian: trage pe nas
• Russian: вдыха́ть (ru) (vdyxátʹ) (наркотики) impf, вдохну́ть (ru) pf (vdoxnútʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian: ušmrtkati
• Spanish: esnifar (es)
• Swedish: snorta (sv), sniffa (sv), dra (sv)
• Turkish: çekmek (tr)

Anagrams

• ronts, trons

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Pronunciation

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Verb

snort

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