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Snort vs Mouth - What's the difference?

snort | mouth |

In lang=en terms the difference between snort and mouth

is that snort is an alcoholic drink while mouth is a loud or overly talkative person.

As nouns the difference between snort and mouth

is that snort is the sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose while mouth is the opening of a creature through which food is ingested.

As verbs the difference between snort and mouth

is that snort is to make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose while mouth is to speak; to utter.

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.

    mouth

    English

    (wikipedia mouth)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
  • * , chapter=7
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs.
  • The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
  • An outlet, aperture or orifice.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
  • , chapter=1 citation , passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}
  • (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
  • (saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
  • (obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
  • * Addison
  • Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.
  • (obsolete) Cry; voice.
  • (Dryden)
  • (obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
  • * Bible, Matt. xviii. 16
  • that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established
  • (obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Counterfeit sad looks, / Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To speak; to utter.
  • He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
  • * Hare
  • mouthing big phrases
  • To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
  • The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
  • To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
  • The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.
  • (obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
  • (Dryden)
  • (obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
  • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • (obsolete) To make mouths at.
  • Derived terms

    (mouth) * a closed mouth gathers no feet * all mouth and pants/trousers]], all mouth and no pants/[[all mouth and no trousers, trousers, all mouth * ass-to-mouth/ATM * badmouth * bad taste in one's mouth * bellmouth * big mouth * blabbermouth * born with a silver spoon in one's mouth * broadmouth * cottonmouth * dirty mouth * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * down in the mouth * dragon's mouth * dry mouth * fishmouth * flannelmouth * flutemouth * foam at the mouth * foot-and-mouth/foot and mouth * frogmouth * froth at the mouth * goalmouth * guttermouth * headmouth * hand-foot-and-mouth disease * hand-to-mouth * horse's mouth * keep one's mouth shut * largemouth * loudmouth/loud-mouth, loudmouthed/loud-mouthed * motor mouth * mouth bow * mouth-breather * mouthbreathing * mouthbrooder * mouthed/-mouthed * mouther * mouthfeel * mouth-footed * mouth harp * mouth-made * mouth of a sailor * mouth mirror * mouthful * mouthguard * mouthless * mouthlike * mouthly * mouth music * mouth off * mouth organ * mouthpart * mouthpiece * mouth-to-mouth * mouthwash * mouthwatering/mouth-watering * mouthy * out of the mouths of babes * pipemouth * poormouth * potty mouth * put one's foot in one's mouth * put one's money where one's mouth is * put words in somebody's mouth * redmouth * river mouth * run off at the mouth * saltmouth * scabby mouth * sea mouth * shoot off at the mouth * shoot one's mouth off * shut one's mouth * smallmouth * smash-mouth/smashmouth * straight from the horse's mouth * suckermouth * trench mouth * warmouth * wash your mouth out * watch your mouth * word of mouth * wrymouth

    See also

    * orifice