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Snort vs Wheeze - What's the difference?

snort | wheeze |

In lang=en terms the difference between snort and wheeze

is that snort is an alcoholic drink while wheeze is something very humorous or laughable.

As nouns the difference between snort and wheeze

is that snort is the sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose while wheeze is a piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.

As verbs the difference between snort and wheeze

is that snort is to make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose while wheeze is to breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.

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.

    wheeze

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A piping or whistling sound caused by difficult respiration.
  • An ordinary whisper exaggerated so as to produce the hoarse sound known as the "stage whisper"; a forcible whisper with some admixture of tone.
  • (British, slang) An ulterior scheme or plan
  • * 2011 " Road rage; High petrol prices hurt, but will not throttle the economy", The Economist 19 November 2011:
    • The main point of fuel duty, though, is as a fiscal wheeze : it made up 5% of the tax take in 2010.
  • (slang) Something very humorous or laughable.
    • The new comedy is a wheeze .
    You think you're going to win? That's a real wheeze !

    Synonyms

    * See also

    Verb

  • To breathe hard, and with an audible piping or whistling sound, as persons affected with asthma.
  • * 2001 , (Fourth Estate, paperback edition, 443)
    • If the air smelled even faintly of dog, Lionel coughed, wheezed and sneezed.