/ snɔːt; NAmE snɔːrt/ verb , noun
■ verb
1.
to make a loud sound by breathing air out noisily through your nose, especially to show that you are angry or amused :
[ v ]
to snort with laughter
She snorted in disgust.
The horse snorted and tossed its head.
[ v speech ]
'You!' he snorted contemptuously.
2.
[ vn ] to take drugs by breathing them in through the nose :
to snort cocaine
■ noun
1.
a loud sound that you make by breathing air out noisily through your nose, especially to show that you are angry or amused :
to give a snort
a snort of disgust
I could hear the snort and stamp of a horse.
2.
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
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WORD ORIGIN
late Middle English (as a verb, also in the sense snore ): probably imitative; compare with snore . The noun dates from the early 19th cent.