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recount
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -a?nt
Etymology 1
From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter.
Noun
recount (plural recounts)
- Narration, account, description, rendering
Translations
Verb
recount (third-person singular simple present recounts, present participle recounting, simple past and past participle recounted)
- To tell; narrate; to relate in detail
- The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
- (dated) To rehearse; to enumerate.
- to recount one's blessings
Translations
Etymology 2
From re- +? count
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?i??ka?nt/
Noun
recount (plural recounts)
- A counting again, as of votes.
Translations
Verb
recount (third-person singular simple present recounts, present participle recounting, simple past and past participle recounted)
- To count again.
Translations
Anagrams
- Counter, Cureton, Cutrone, cornute, counter, counter-, countre, trounce
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snort
English
Etymology
From Middle English snorten, from earlier fnorten, probably related to Middle English snoren, fnoren, from Old English fnora. See snore and sneeze for more on the change from fn- to sn-.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /sn??t/
- Rhymes: -??(r)t
Noun
snort (plural snorts)
- The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
- (slang) A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco).
- (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."
- 1951, Indiana Historical Society Publications (volumes 16-17, page 157)
- (nautical, Britain) A submarine snorkel.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
snort (third-person singular simple present snorts, present participle snorting, simple past and past participle snorted)
- (intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
- She snorted with laughter.
- (transitive) To express or force out by snorting.
- He snorted a derisory reply and turned on his heel.
- (transitive, slang) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
- to snort cocaine
- (intransitive, obsolete) To snore.
- (intransitive, nautical, of submarines) To sail at periscope depth through the use of a snort or snorkel.
Synonyms
- (inhale through the nose): insufflate
Derived terms
Translations
References
Anagrams
- ronts, trons
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
snort
- second- and third-person singular present indicative of snorren
- (archaic) plural imperative of snorren
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