snort
noun/snɔːt/
/snɔːrt/
- a loud sound that you make by breathing air out noisily through your nose, especially to show that you are angry or think something is silly
- to give a snort
- a snort of disgust
- I could hear the snort and stamp of a horse.
- He gave a snort of contempt.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- little
- small
- loud
- …
- give
- let out
- hear
- …
- with a snort
- snort of
- a snort of derision
- a snort of disgust
- a snort of laughter
- …
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- a small amount of a drug that is breathed in through the nose; an act of taking a drug in this way
- to take a snort of cocaine
Word Originlate Middle English (as a verb, also in the sense ‘snore’): probably imitative; compare with snore. The noun dates from the early 19th cent.
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