Grumble vs Snorted - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between grumble and snorted

is that grumble is to make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals while snorted is (snort).

As a noun grumble

is (onomatopoeia) a low thundering, rumbling or growling sound.

grumble

English

Noun

(en noun)

(onomatopoeia) A low thundering, rumbling or growling sound.

The sound made by a hungry stomach.

A complaint.

That whiner is never without a grumble to share.

Derived terms

* grumbly

Verb

(grumbl)

To make a low, growling or rumbling noise, like a hungry stomach or certain animals.

The distant thunder grumbles .

* {{quote-book

, year=1995 , author=Terry C. Johnston , title=Dance on the Wind , page=15 , passage=It made his stomach grumble in protest to think the mule was eating, and here he was worrying about her with an empty belly of his own.}}

To complain; to murmur or mutter with discontent; to make ill-natured complaints in a low voice and a surly manner.

He grumbles about the food constantly, but has yet to learn to cook.

To utter in a grumbling fashion.

* 2001 , Harry Willcox Pfanz, Gettysburg — the first day?

He grumbled that there was no grain "in the country" and that people were talking instead of working to provide it.

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* grumbler

snorted

English

Verb

(head)

(snort)

Anagrams

snort

English

Noun

(en noun)

The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.

(slang) A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco). A snort also may be a drink of whiskey, as "Let's have a snort".

(slang) An alcoholic drink.

* 1951 , Indiana Historical Society Publications (volumes 16-17, page 157)

Everybody tipped up the jug and took a snort of whisky and followed it with a gourd of cool water. We thought a snort of whisky now and then braced us up some and put a little more lift in us.

Verb

(en verb)

To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.

She snorted with laughter.

(slang) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.

to snort cocaine

(obsolete) To snore.

* Shakespeare

The snorting citizens.