snort

Meanings

Noun

• The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
• A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco).
• A consumed portion of alcoholic drink.
• A submarine snorkel.

Verb

• To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
• To express or force out by snorting.
• To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
• To snore.
• To sail at periscope depth through the use of a snort or snorkel.

Related

Similar words

• insufflate

Origin

• 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-.