Snort vs Snerk - What's the difference?
snort | snerk |
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
(Internet, slang) Expressing amusement; a snicker, or a snort of laughter.
As verbs the difference between snort and snerk
is that snort is to make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose while snerk is to snicker or snort with laughter to express amusement.As a noun snort
is the sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.As an interjection snerk is
expressing amusement; a snicker, or a snort of laughter.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.
