boo, hoot, Bronx cheer, hiss, raspberry, razzing, razz, snort, bird
(noun) a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
snicker, snort, snigger
(noun) a disrespectful laugh
snort
(verb) make a snorting sound by exhaling hard; “The critic snorted contemptuously”
snort
(verb) indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose; “she snorted her disapproval of the proposed bridegroom”
huff, snort
(verb) inhale recreational drugs; “The addict was snorting cocaine almost every day”; “the kids were huffing glue”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
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).
(slang) A consumed portion of alcoholic drink.
(nautical, UK) A submarine snorkel.
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.
(transitive) To express or force out by snorting.
(transitive, slang) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
(intransitive, obsolete) To snore.
(intransitive, nautical, of submarines) To sail at periscope depth through the use of a snort or snorkel.
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Source: Wiktionary
Snort, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Snorted; p. pr. & vb. n. Snorting.] Etym: [OE. snorten; akin to snoren. See Snore.]
1. To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play. Fairfax.
2. To snore. [R.] "The snorting citizens." Shak.
3. To laugh out loudly. [Colloq.] Halliwell.
Snort, n.
Definition: The act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting.
Snort, v. t.
Definition: To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort. Keats.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
26 April 2024
(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
