(v. i.) To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.
(v. i.) To snore.
(v. i.) To laugh out loudly.
(n.) The act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting.
(v. t.) To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disposition of radiolabeled cocaine in humans has been studied after three routes of administration: iv injection, nasal insufflation (ni, snorting), and smoke inhalation (si).
(2) Symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea, a potentially life-threatening disorder, include excessive daytime sleepiness and sleep attacks, nocturnal breath cessation, and snorting and gasping sounds.
(3) In this case a 29-year-old White man presented to the emergency room 3 days after he 'snorted' approximately 200mg of colchicine powder.
(4) The Ohio native suffered from PTSD and a traumatic brain injury, his lawyers say, and he had been drinking contraband alcohol and snorting Valium – both provided by other soldiers – the night of the killings.
(5) Further evidence of apnea can be obtained by determining the presence of the additional signs of loud nocturnal snorting and gasping sounds and nocturnal breath cessations.
(6) The execution of Joseph Wood in Arizona, which left the convicted killer “gasping and snorting” for two hours as the state put him to death, is the third botched delivery of capital punishment this year.
(7) It has moments of snort-out-loud laughter (the paddle steamer named the Wonderful Fanny, the Jane Austen vignette – see below).
(8) Spall's performance has been much celebrated for its emotional depth, despite Turner's vocabulary in the film often consisting of grunts, snorts and spitting saliva onto the canvas.
(9) She won’t say if she’d quit the party if he won, “because it’s not going to happen”, but when later I ask if she would defect from the Tory party today, had she not done so in 2013, she snorts: “Not if Raheem were leading the party.
(10) Most of the time the cast hadn't seen the script until this moment, so the frequent snorts of laughter were music to our ears.
(11) "Nothing to celebrate on the Champs Elysees," snorts Paul Griffin.
(12) Since that time he has been gasping, snorting, and unable to breathe and not dying.
(13) When asked about his inclusion, in 1995, on New York Magazine’s 100 Smartest New Yorkers list, he snorted.
(14) In Crank, famously, he is injected with a poison that will kill him if his adrenaline level drops, leading him to snort cocaine, get in a lot of fights and have sex with his girlfriend in front of a crowd of cheering tourists.
(15) In this study, we are interested in the character of the mucosa and their changes as affected by long-term injury from the trauma of the inspiratory and expiratory air currents, which, on sniffling or snorting, may reach hurricane speeds.
(16) The STS gene has been localised by deletion mapping to the distal tip of the snort arm of the X chromosome, and is of interest in that it appears to escape X-inactivation.
(17) Does the public have an “interest” in what all politicians once said, drank, smoked or snorted, or what they got up to with their lovers or stockbrokers?
(18) They nudge the soft earth or a companion before snorting and continuing on up through the paddocks to the shed.
(19) Recreational cocaine abuse via intranasal "snorting," "free-base" smoking, "body-packing," or intravenous injection can be lethal.
(20) Jon Stewart, who has taken to the story of the crack-smoking mayor like Ford to the pipe, laughed at the city council's apparent toothlessness when attempting to strip him of his mayoral position: "That's justice, Canadian style," he snorted.
Snot
Definition:
(n.) Mucus secreted in, or discharged from, the nose.
(n.) A mean, insignificant fellow.
(v. t.) To blow, wipe, or clear, as the nose.
Example Sentences:
(1) But really it's because That's What Real Cyclists Do, along with blowing their noses by shooting snot out of a nostril at high speed, and obsessing over their weight.
(2) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
(3) Most of the restaurants in China to me smelled dirty, though what I was smelling was likely some unfamiliar ingredient, and I was allowing the things I'd seen earlier in the day – the spitting and snot blowing, etc – to fill in the blanks.
(4) The supermarket cashier holds out your change and you take it thinking, "This woman squats and spits on the floor while shitting and blowing snot out of her nose."
(5) Over the course of 500 pages he wrestles a swarthy rage he names "the Fury", battens down his cravings, sprays spit and snot and blood and urine, recounts his misdemeanours, finds friendship, and falls in love.
(6) At one point, I watched Este and Danielle inspect the insides of Alana's nose, at length, for visible snot.
(7) The other members of the Justice League remain superpowered twinkles in the studio's eye (bar The Green Lantern, who's more of an unattractive snot-like stain after the debacle of Martin Campbell's 2011 non-event ).
(8) There's no mention of belly button fluff either - but blackheads, snot, puke, pus, scabs, tears, smegma, eyelid crumbs, vaginal discharges, menstrual blood and other gunk are all acceptable fodder, especially when dried to a crust under the fingernails.
(9) Her range is immense, from the unguarded ecstasies of first love to the tear-drenched, snot-dribbling grief of loss.
(10) From snot-nosed weeping to loving cuddles, there are feelings everywhere, as is the sense this is a safe place to feel them – even as a man.
(11) I hate the sin but ah love the sinner," honked the freshly convicted Fiz, face sodden with snot, and with a final grimace of embarrassment John Stape gurgled his last, his newly bearded soul presumably passing through purgatory's rigorous decontamination process before ascending to the Dead Soap Bastard sty in the sky.
(12) Then you roll up and you've got to bowl sides out on an absolute snot heap, as slow a pitch as you can get.
(13) Last year the Ocean Alliance partnered with tech heads Yuneec to create “snot bots”; drones with petri dishes attached.
(14) Great gobs of snot run down Merlin's grey fur, while his tongue flicks in and out of his mouth.
(15) One of them often had a threatening trail of snot about to drip on the programme (same price as the peanuts) but he would sniff it up just in time.
(16) For research purposes, the drones are flown over water to catch spray and snot from whales when the animals exhale.
(17) Also, I fear that Chiellini lacks the speed to contain Suarez, although I am sure he will beat the snot out of him."
(18) "We're talking tears, snot … just sobbing in an audience of 30 people."
(19) It's their destiny too, but they're way too full of snot and pep to notice.
(20) I then spent two hours counselling a woman who snotted on my shoulder about her breakup 10 years ago.