[
US
/ˈsnɔɹt/
]
[ UK /snˈɔːt/ ]
[ UK /snˈɔːt/ ]
VERB
- inhale through the nose
-
inhale recreational drugs
the kids were huffing glue
The addict was snorting cocaine almost every day -
indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose
she snorted her disapproval of the proposed bridegroom -
make a snorting sound by exhaling hard
The critic snorted contemptuously
NOUN
- a cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt
- a disrespectful laugh
How To Use snort In A Sentence
- All the while their mother snorted, shuffled about a bit and then went back to sleep. The Sun
- Once, just after Inez served apple pie a la mode, Alfred snorted suddenly, loudly.
- An incredulous snort came from Chris, and I gave him dirty look that silenced him up.
- Perhaps if he hadn't looked so unwontedly silly, then he would have been able to keep it down, but instead he snorted.
- Vermont, far removed from all beasts of prey -- why is it that upon the sunniest day, if you but shake a fresh buffalo robe behind him, so that he cannot even see it, but only smells its wild animal muskiness -- why will he start, snort, and with bursting eyes paw the ground in phrensies of affright? Moby Dick, or, the whale
- Under Pragmatic(al) she read; meddlesome, positive, dictatorial (she snorted, irritably). BEHINDLINGS
- Let me tell you a rip snorter about a farmer and his cow.
- Less common, and more exciting, is the skill-prodigy, the ferrety junior ballerina who comes snorting out of his elite rabbit hole ready-made. Enjoying the fleeting thrill of fragile prodigies is a national habit | Barney Ronay
- Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
- You basically take a pinch, put it in the crook of your finger and then close the other nostril and have a snort. Times, Sunday Times
