snort

From Middle English snorten, an onomatopoeic variant of Middle English snoren, from Proto-Germanic *snarkjaną, *snarkōną.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /snɔɹt/

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(r)t

snort (plural snorts)

1. The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
2. (slang) A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco).
3. (slang) A consumed portion of alcoholic drink.
   • 1951, Indiana Historical Society Publications (volumes 16-17, page 157)

     Everybody tipped up the jug and took a snort of whisky and followed it with a gourd of cool water. We thought a snort of whisky now and then braced us up some and put a little more lift in us.

   • 1978, George G. Gilman, Edge: Red River, Pinnacle Books (1978), →ISBN, page 45:

     "It won't buy you any wine," Paxton told him.

     "I know that," the drunk replied in an insulted tone. "It's a pussy pass, ain't it?"

     Paxton grinned wearily. "How would you know that? You'd rather have a snort than a screw any day."

4. (nautical, Britain) A submarine snorkel.

snort (third-person singular simple present snorts, present participle snorting, simple past and past participle snorted)

1. (intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.

   She snorted with laughter.

2. (transitive) To express or force out by snorting.

   He snorted a derisory reply and turned on his heel.

3. (transitive, slang) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.

   to snort cocaine

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To snore.
   • Shakespeare

     the snorting citizens

5. (intransitive, nautical, of submarines) To sail at periscope depth through the use of a snort or snorkel.

• ronts, trons

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snort

1. second- and third-person singular present indicative of snorren
2. (archaic) plural imperative of snorren