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Definition: Snort |
SnortNoun1. A disrespectful laugh. 2. A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt. Verb1. Indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose; "she snorted her disapproval of the proposed bridegroom". 2. Make a snorting sound by exhaling hard. 3. Inhale recreational drugs. 4. Inhale (drugs) through the nose. 5. Ingest through the nose; "The drug addict was snorting cocaine every night". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snort" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Some addicts sniff or snort. . . cocaine or heroin. They do this by inhaling it directly. Source: European Union. (references) |
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
SNORT | English | Supersonic Naval Ordnance Research Track | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: SnortSynonyms: bird (n), boo (n), hiss (n), hoot (n), raspberry (n), razzing (n), snicker (n), snigger (n), huff (v), take a hit (v). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Snort |
| English words defined with "snort": Fnese ♦ Snift, Snorted. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "snort": NOSE ♦ rocket sled ♦ schnorkle. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Lyrics | lock me up and snort away my key (Cowboy; performing artist: KID ROCK) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Zip 'N Snort (1961) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Pig snort. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Mr Dedalus gave a snort of contempt |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He drew in a snort of air with the coffee, to cool it. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The person may snort or gasp, then resume snoring. (references) | |
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| "Snort" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 79.02% of the time. "Snort" is used about 143 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 79.02% | 113 | 30,464 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 7.69% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (proper) | 6.99% | 10 | 111,207 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 6.29% | 9 | 117,287 |
| Total | 100.00% | 143 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "snort": snort at ♦ snort drink ♦ snort out ♦ to snort. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "snort": growl-snort, mega-snort, siphon-snort. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
snort | 199 | 2.0 snort | 3 |
air snort | 22 | inline snort | 3 |
snort window | 16 | barnyard snort | 3 |
2 rpm snort | 11 | db snort snort.org | 3 |
ids snort | 10 | snort utility | 3 |
rule snort | 7 | ritalin snort | 3 |
acid snort | 6 | detection intrusion snort | 3 |
snort vicodin | 6 | oxycontin snort | 2 |
setup slackware snort | 6 | file rule snort | 2 |
buck snort | 4 | howto log snort | 2 |
mysql snort | 4 | adderall snort | 2 |
linux snort | 4 | snort xanax | 2 |
slackware snort | 4 | ambien snort | 2 |
download snort | 4 | giggle hotel snort | 2 |
snort ultram | 2 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "snort"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | notoj nën ujë me kallam, gërhij (snore). (various references) | |
Arabic | نخير, تذمر (clamor, clamour, complain, complaint, crab, croak, groan, grouch, grouchiness, growl, grudge, grumble, murmur, mutter, nag, plain, repine, whimper), صهيل (neigh, snicker, whinny), صهل (snicker, whinny), أطلق أصواتا كالشخير, شم (acumen, feel, nose, scent, smell, sniff, snuff), شخير (roar, snore), شخر (peal, sniff, snore), شراب مسكر يتجرع دفعة واحدة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сумтя (grunt, snuffle), сумтене (grunt, snuffle), шнорхел (schnorkel, snorkel), глътка силно питие (snifter, snorter), всмуквам (suck, suck in, suck up), вдъхвам (ensoul, imbue, implant, inbreathe, inform, inhale, inoculate, inspire, prepossess, prompt), пухтя (chug, huff, puff), пухтене, пръхтя, изсумтяване, изсумтявам, изсмивам. (various references) | |
Chinese | 作"聲 . (various references) | |
Czech | supìt (chug, pant, puff, wheeze), funìt (gasp, puff, wheeze), frkat (chug), šòupat (sniff, snuff, take snuff). (various references) | |
Danish | sniffing (inhalation, sniffing, to horn, to snif, to snort). (various references) | |
Dutch | snuiven (snuffle). (various references) | |
Farsi | غریدن (Boom, Peal, Roar, Root, Rumble), زفیرکشیدن , خرناس (Snore), خروپف کردن (Snore), خرخر (Rattle), جرعه مشروب . (various references) | |
Finnish | korskunta, korskua. (various references) | |
French | s'ébrouer, ronfler (snooze, snore), ronchonner, respirer (sniff), renifler (sniff, sniffle, snuffle), priser par le nez (sniff), grogner, grognement. (various references) | |
German | schnauben (blow, breathe, puff, sniff, to snort). (various references) | |
Greek | ρωθώνισμα (sniffle), ρωθωνίζω (snide, sniffle, snuffle), ρουθουνίζω, ξεφυσώ (puff and blow, wheeze), φύσημα (blast, blatancy, blow, flurry, gust, puff, whiff), φρουμάζω, φυσώ (blast, blow, puff, whiff). (various references) | |
Hebrew | לחרחר (embroil, incite, instigate, stir up quarrel), ל חור (grunt, snore), חיר" (snore). (various references) | |
Hungarian | horkantás, slukk (drag, godown, gulp, hit, puff, pull, swill), prüszkölés. (various references) | |
Indonesian | mendengus, dengus (deride with a snort), dengkus (whinny), berdengus, berdengkus (sigh, whinny). (various references) | |
Italian | sbuffare (chug, fume, pant, puff, puff away, sniff). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 鳴らす (to beat, to chime, to ring, to snort, to sound). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ならす (to accustom, to beat, to chime, to domesticate, to make even, to make level, to make smooth, to ring, to snort, to sound, to tame). (various references) | |
Manx | stronnaghey (eclipsis, nasalize, sniff, snivel, snuffle), stron (snuffle). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ortsnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | resfolgar, resfolegar (puff), exprimir bufando, bufar (blow, puff, sniff, wheeze). (various references) | |
Romanian | sforãiturã, sforãit (snore), sforãialã (bunkum, snoring, snorting), sforãi (snore, snuffle), pufni (sniff, spit), horcãit (ruckle, snore, snoring, snorting), horcãi, forãi (roar). (various references) | |
Russian | фыркать (pish, sniff). (various references) | |
Scottish | srann (a snore, buzz, hum, snore). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mala količina viskija (snifter), frktati, frktanje, šmrkati (sniff, snuffle). (various references) | |
Spanish | resoplido (pant, puff), inhalar (inhale, sniff), esnifar (sniff), bufido (snorting), bufar (blow, spit). (various references) | |
Swedish | fnysa (bridle at, sniff). (various references) | |
Turkish | homurdanmak (grouch, grouse, grumble, grunt, murmur, mutter, snarl, snarl at), homurdanma (crab, grouch, grumble, grumbling, mutter, snarl), burnundan solumak (blow like a grampus, fume, harrumph, huff, huff and puff, puff like a grampus), burnundan soluma, öfkeyle burnundan solumak. (various references) | |
Turkmen | horlamak (exhaust, snore). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | хропіти (snore), хропіння (snore), фиркати (chortle, pshaw), пирхати (chortle), пирхання (chortle). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | hớp rượu (snifter). (various references) | |
Welsh | rhwnc (death-rattle, snore), ffroeni (sniff, snuff). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Old French | 900-1400 | froignier. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snort": snorted, snorter, snorters, snorting, snorts. (additional references) | |
Words containing "snort": ripsnorter, ripsnorters, ripsnorting. (additional references) | |
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"Snort" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: anort, Noort, nort, scort, Sencourt, snarf, snirt, snor, snork, snoro, snorri, snory, snurk, snurp, sornt, stort. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "snort" (pronounced snô"rt) |
| 3 | -ô" r t | abort, assort, athwart, boart, bort, cavort, comport, consort, contort, court, import, deport, distort, escort, exhort, extort, Fort, forte, misreport, Mort, ort, port, quart, report, resort, short, sort, sport, support, Swart, teleport, thwart, tort, torte, transport, underreport, wart. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "n-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: orts, rots, snot, sorn, sort, tons, torn, tors. | |
-2 letters: nor, nos, not, ons, ors, ort, rot, son, sot, ton, tor. | |
-3 letters: no, on, or, os, so, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "n-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: fronts, intros, nestor, nitros, norths, noters, snorts, stoner, strong, strown, tenors, tensor, thorns, toners, tronas, trones. | |
+2 letters: aroints, aroynts, atoners, attorns, burtons, cantors, cartons, cistron, citrons, consort, contras, cornets, cortins, cratons, crotons, enroots, estrone, forints, frontes, hornets, hornist, intorts, introns, ironist, matrons, mentors, monster, natrons, nestors, nitroso, nitrous, nonarts, norites, nostril, nostrum, oestrin, orients, outruns, partons, patrons, postern, protons, rations, ratoons, rattons, rhytons, rodents, runouts, santour, senator, shorten, snorted, snorter, sorbent, sorting, stentor, stoners, stonier, storing, tarpons, tenours, tensors, thorons, thrones, throngs, tongers, tonners, tonsure, torsion, transom, treason, trigons, tritons, trogons, tropins, turnons, unroots. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Sounds 7. Quotations: Fiction 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Translations: Ancient 14. Abbreviations 15. Acronyms 16. Derivations | 17. Rhymes 18. Anagrams 19. Bibliography |
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