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Definition of Snorting
1. Noun. An act of forcible exhalation.
Generic synonyms: Breathing Out, Exhalation, Expiration
Derivative terms: Huff, Puff, Puff, Snort
Definition of Snorting
1. Verb. (present participle of ''snort'') ¹
2. Noun. A snort sound or action. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Snorting
1. snort [v] - See also: snort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Snorting
Literary usage of Snorting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"So far one spring of those high snorting steeds. But when they gain'd the rivers
near to Troy, Where Simois and Scamander join their streams, ..."
2. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Léopold Delisle, Guizot (François) (1854)
"The horse stopped, ready for him to mount without difficulty, at the same time
snorting from his nostrils a cloud of vapour as large as a full-grown oak. ..."
3. Brand's Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Faiths and Folklore; a by John Brand (1905)
"22, and the passage from Lyly already cited. Gaule gires us " the snorting in
sleep," the dreaming of gold, silver, ..."
4. English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892) by John Matthews Manly (1916)
"... of flame to bring them straight The snorting white-winged brother of the wave,1
They hear him as a thing by fate Cursed in unholy babble to his grave. ..."
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