Snort vs Bellow - What's the difference?
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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)
To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
(slang) To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
(obsolete) To snore.
* Shakespeare
To make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.
* Dryden
To shout in a deep voice.
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Snort is a related term of bellow.
As nouns the difference between snort and bellow
is that snort is the sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose while bellow is the deep roar of a large animal, or any similar loud noise.As verbs the difference between snort and bellow
is that snort is to make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose while bellow is to make a loud, deep, hollow noise like the roar of an angry bull.snort
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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)- She snorted with laughter.
- to snort cocaine
- The snorting citizens.
bellow
English
Verb
(en verb)- the bellowing voice of boiling seas
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