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SNORTING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does snorting mean?
• SNORTING (noun)
The noun SNORTING has 1 sense:
1. an act of forcible exhalation
Familiarity information: SNORTING used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An act of forcible exhalation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("snorting" is a kind of...):
breathing out; exhalation; expiration (the act of expelling air from the lungs)
Derivation:
snort (make a snorting sound by exhaling hard)
Context examples
It is a foul, snorting, snarling manner of speech.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The air was so clear and pleasant, and the horse seemed to like the idea of the ride so much himself, as he stood snorting and pawing at the garden-gate, that I had a great desire to go.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
These, and a dark-complexioned young woman, with a habit of snorting, who was servant to the family, and informed me, before half an hour had expired, that she was a Orfling, and came from St. Luke's workhouse, in the neighbourhood, completed the establishment.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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