Snort vs Guffaw - What's the difference?
snort | guffaw |
In lang=en terms the difference between snort and guffaw is that snort is to make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose while guffaw is to laugh boisterously. As nouns the difference between snort and guffaw is that snort is the sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose while guffaw is a boisterous laugh. As verbs the difference between snort and guffaw is that snort is to make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose while guffaw is to laugh boisterously.
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.
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guffaw English
Noun
( en noun)
A boisterous laugh
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- On opening the little door, two hairy monsters flew at my throat, bearing me down, and extinguishing the light; while a mingled guffaw from Heathcliff and Hareton put the copestone on my rage and humiliation.
* 1906 , , ch. xx,
- He walked to the edge and they heard his hoarse guffaw of laughter as the arrows clanged and clattered against his impenetrable mail.
* 1936 , , ch. 15,
- He heaved up with a sulfurous curse, braced his legs and glared about him, with a burst of coarse guffaws in his ears and the reek of unwashed bodies in his nostrils.
Synonyms
* (boisterous laugh) belly laugh
Verb
( en verb)
To laugh boisterously.
* 1891 , , ch. 15,
- He guffawed at his adversaries.
* 1900 , ,
- Peter, on the contrary, threw back his head and guffawed thunderously.
Synonyms
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