Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
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
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
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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