Snort vs Snooze - What's the difference?
snort | snooze |
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 sleep, especially briefly; to nap.
To pause; to postpone for a short while.
* 2003 , Ken Slovak, Absolute Beginner's Guide to Microsoft Office Outlook 2003 (page 110)
* 2007 , Sue Mosher, Microsoft Outlook 2007 Programming (page 359)
* 2011 , Dan Gookin, Bill Loguidice, Motorola ATRIX For Dummies (page 40)
A period of sleep; a nap.
Something boring.
In intransitive terms the difference between snort and snooze
is that snort is to make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose while snooze is to sleep, especially briefly; to nap.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.
snooze
English
Verb
(intransitive)- The boss caught him snoozing at his desk.
- It enables you to dismiss the reminder, dismiss all reminders, open the highlighted item in the Reminder dialog, and snooze the reminder. Snoozing a reminder is similar to hitting the snooze button on an alarm clock
- Let's say you want to see all your reminders, but you don't want it to be too easy to snooze the ones for important items.
- To snooze the phone, press and release the power button.
Noun
(en noun)- The cat enjoys taking a snooze on a sunny windowsill.
- The whole movie was a snooze .