snort
/snɔɹt/ verb C2- To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose. · She snorted with laughter.
- To express or force out by snorting. · He snorted a derisory reply and turned on his heel.
- To express contempt or disgust by (or as if by) a snorting sound.
- To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose. · to snort cocaine
- To sail at periscope depth through the use of a snort or snorkel.
He/she/it snorts · Past snorted · Past participle snorted · -ing form snorting
Verb forms
- Base form
- snort
- He/she/it
- snorts
- Past
- snorted
- Past participle
- snorted
- -ing form
- snorting
From the library
Holmes snorted his contempt.
There he checked, for he heard the yell of the Pack hunting, heard the bellow of a hunted Sambhur, and the snort as the buck turned at bay.
“The pity of the Monkey People!” Baloo snorted.
The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.
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