Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rough, noisy sound made by breathing forcefully through the nostrils, as a horse or pig does.
- noun A similar sound.
- noun A drink of liquor, especially when swallowed in one gulp.
- noun Cocaine or heroin, especially a small amount sniffed at one time.
- noun The liquor or drug so taken.
- intransitive verb To breathe noisily and forcefully through the nostrils.
- intransitive verb To make a sound resembling noisy exhalation.
- intransitive verb To make an abrupt noise expressive of scorn, ridicule, or contempt.
- intransitive verb To ingest a drug, such as cocaine or heroin, by sniffing.
- intransitive verb To express by snorting.
- intransitive verb To ingest by sniffing.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A loud abrupt sound produced by forcing air through the nostrils.
- To snore loudly.
- To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise: said of persons under excitement, and especially of high-spirited horses.
- To laugh outright or boisterously; burst into a horse-laugh.
- To turn up: said of the nose.
- To express by a snort; say with a snort: as, to
snort defiance. - To expel or force out as by a snort.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting.
- intransitive verb To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.
- intransitive verb rare To snore.
- intransitive verb colloq. To laugh out loudly.
- transitive verb To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The sound made by
exhaling orinhaling roughly through thenose . - noun slang A dose of a
drug to besnorted . Here, "drug" includessnuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco). A snort also may be a drink of whiskey, as "Let's have a snort". - verb intransitive To make a snort; to
exhale roughly through the nose. - verb transitive (
slang ) Toinhale (usually adrug ) through thenose .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- verb make a snorting sound by exhaling hard
- verb inhale recreational drugs
- verb inhale through the nose
- verb indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose
- noun a disrespectful laugh
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Whether it was a giggle, a guffaw, a chortle, a snort is irrelevant.
The Weirdest Examples of Mass Hysteria | Disinformation 2008
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Have another snort from the bong and pass it on, will you?
Is That Legal?: Stop the "Wellstone Funeral" Meme In Its Tracks! 2006
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They cussed and yelled their ways through the day, took an occasional sly snort from a bottle in the bottom drawer of their desk and bit into news stories like packs of wild dogs, never letting go until they'd found and told the truth. '
03/01/2005 2005
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Sir Marmaduke had arisen with a snort from a short slumber, and had just sworn that he and everybody else should go to bed, when there came a ring at the front-door bell.
He Knew He Was Right 2004
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Sir Marmaduke had arisen with a snort from a short slumber, and had just sworn that he and everybody else should go to bed, when there came
He Knew He Was Right Anthony Trollope 1848
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They eat dirt and snort, which is what my two bulldogs, Boris and Priscilla, also do.
James Frey: Thoughts on Cheese, Chores, and Harvesting Pigs at the Fabulous Beekman Boys Farm 2010
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If you noticed too, the dire horses used the Velociraptor calling snort as well.
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Behind him, he heard the Draka snort in derision—and then moist hands were pushing him forward.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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Behind him, he heard the Draka snort in derision—and then moist hands were pushing him forward.
LEGENDS OF THE DRAGONREALM Richard A. Knaak 2009
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Behind him, he heard the Draka snort in derision—and then moist hands were pushing him forward.
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yarb commented on the word snort
...a tiny disc round her neck
at which you stare from three inches
whilst snorting in copulation.
- Peter Reading, Amulet, from Tom O' Bedlam's Beauties, 1981
June 28, 2008
lea commented on the word snort
Number one on my human animal voices list.
April 1, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word snort
I'd like dontcry to record her famous *snort*.
November 19, 2009
dontcry commented on the word snort
Ah, ha, ha! Would that I could, Pro! We don't have the voice recording technology yet on The Porch! Stay tuned! And thanks for the props!
November 19, 2009
dontcry commented on the word snort
All of those, so called, pronunciations, are incorrect, by the way.
November 19, 2009