Thesaurus: snort
To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.
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Definitions
- v. i. To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.
- v. i. To snore.
- v. i. To laugh out loudly.
- n. The act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting.
- v. t. To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.
- n. a disrespectful laugh
- n. a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- v. indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose
- v. make a snorting sound by exhaling hard
- v. inhale recreational drugs
- v. inhale through the nose
- 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. The act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting. To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort. Keats.