snort
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English snorten, an onomatopoeic variant of Middle English snoren, from Proto-Germanic *snarkjaną
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
snort (plural snorts)
- The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
- (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".
- (slang) An 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.
- 1951, Indiana Historical Society Publications (volumes 16-17, page 157)
Translations[edit]
sound made by exhaling roughly through the nose
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Verb[edit]
snort (third-person singular simple present snorts, present participle snorting, simple past and past participle snorted)
- (intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
- She snorted with laughter.
- (transitive, slang) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
- to snort cocaine
- (intransitive, obsolete) To snore.
- Shakespeare
- The snorting citizens.
- Shakespeare
Translations[edit]
to exhale roughly through the nose
to inhale (usually a drug) through the nose
Dutch[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
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Verb[edit]
snort
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of snorren
- (archaic) plural imperative of snorren
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