SNORT

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

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Etymology

Noun

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.

Verb

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.

Anagrams

• ronts, trons

Source: Wiktionary

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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

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