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Snort   /snɔrt/   Listen
Snort

noun
1.
A disrespectful laugh.  Synonyms: snicker, snigger.
2.
A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt.  Synonyms: bird, boo, Bronx cheer, hiss, hoot, raspberry, razz, razzing.
verb
(past & past part. snorted; pres. part. snorting)
1.
Indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose.
2.
Make a snorting sound by exhaling hard.
3.
Inhale recreational drugs.  Synonym: huff.  "The kids were huffing glue"
4.
Inhale through the nose.  Synonym: take a hit.



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"Snort" Quotes from Famous Books



... on me at every turn of the road. This business of hunting employment has got to be so balmy that I snort and jump sideways ...
— The Sorrows of a Show Girl • Kenneth McGaffey
... the water; another stretches forth a delicate web foot to scratch her ear, as handily as a dog on dry land; and now the drake reflects his purple neck to preen his ruffled wing, and now—bad luck to you, Peacock, why did you snort and stamp?—they are off like a bullet, and out ...
— Warwick Woodlands - Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago • Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)
... worthless scamp Cyril! Cyril,' repeated Mrs Pansey, with a snort, 'the idea of a pauper like Mrs Jennings giving her brat such a fine name. Well, it was Cyril's night out on Sunday, and he did not come home till late, and then made his appearance very wet and dirty. He told me that he had been on ...
— The Bishop's Secret • Fergus Hume
... contemptuous snort he lumbered back into the consulting-room and closed the door. Had he been offering an explanation in case she had overheard? Or merely expressing aloud a general opinion regarding patients, all of whom he ...
— Juggernaut • Alice Campbell
... that. Old Patsy knew a lot about sickness and wounds. (Who can cook for a cattle outfit, for twenty years and more, and not know a good deal of hurts?) Old Patsy had looked Happy over carefully, and had given a grin and a snort. ...
— Flying U Ranch • B. M. Bower


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