Snorted vs Grunted - What's the difference?
snorted | grunted |
(snort)
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
(grunt)
A short, snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
The snorting cry of a pig.
Any fish of the perciform family Haemulidae.
(label) An infantry soldier. (From the verb, just like all the other senses.)
To make a grunt or grunts.
* Shakespeare
To make a grunt or grunts.
To break wind; to fart.
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==Norwegian Bokmål==
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As verbs the difference between snorted and grunted
is that snorted is (snort) while grunted is (grunt).snorted
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*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.