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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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screech
English
Etymology
1602; altered with expressive vowel lengthening from earlier skrech (1577), variant of obsolete scritch, from Middle English skriken, shrichen, schrichen (1250), from Old English (attested as scriccettan) and Old Norse skríkja, both from Proto-Germanic *skr?kijan? (compare Icelandic skríkja, Old Saxon scric?n, Danish skrige, Swedish skrika), derivative of *skr?han? (compare Middle Dutch schriën, German schreien, Low German dial. schrien, schriegen), ultimately of imitative origin.
Pronunciation
- enPR: skr?ch, IPA(key): /sk?i?t?/
- (UK) IPA(key): [sk?i?t?]
- (US) IPA(key): [sk?it?]
- Rhymes: -i?t?
Noun
screech (countable and uncountable, plural screeches)
- A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
- A harsh, shrill cry, as of one in acute pain or in fright; a shriek; a scream.
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 6
- That the night owl should sreech before the noonday sun, that the bat should wheel around the bad of beauty [...]
- 1826, Mary Shelley, The Last Man, volume 3, chapter 6
- (Newfoundlander, uncountable) Newfoundland rum.
- A form of home-made rye whiskey made from used oak rye barrels from a distillery.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
screech (third-person singular simple present screeches, present participle screeching, simple past and past participle screeched)
- To make such a sound.
- (intransitive, figuratively) to travel very fast, as if making the sounds of brakes being released
Translations
Anagrams
- creches, crèches
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