Snort vs Snortable - What's the difference?
snort | snortable |
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
(of drugs) Capable of being snorted.
*{{quote-news, year=2009, date=July 30, author=Alexei Barrionuevo, title=Lost in an Abyss of Drugs, and Entangled by Poverty, work=New York Times
, passage=Paco began arriving in 2003 as a cheaper alternative to snortable cocaine once Argentina became a destination for the final processing of cocaine flowing in from Bolivia and Peru. }}
As a noun snort
is the sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.As a verb snort
is to make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.As an adjective snortable is
(of drugs) capable of being snorted.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.
snortable
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Adjective
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