Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose. · A dose of snuff or other drug to be snorted. · A consumed portion of an alcoholic drink. · A submarine snorkel.
To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose. · To express or force out by snorting. · To express contempt or disgust by (or as if by) a snorting sound. · To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
From Middle English snorten, from earlier fnorten, from Old English *fnorettan, related to Middle English snoren, fnoren, from Old English fnora. See snore and sneeze for more on the change from fn- to sn-.
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- Root classification mention*pnew-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionsnortenenm
- Inherited-form mention*fnorettanang
- Cognate mentionsnorenenm
- Inherited-form mentionfnoraang
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