snorting
English edit
Verb edit
snorting
- present participle and gerund of snort
Noun edit
snorting (plural snortings)
- A snort sound or action.
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:
- Gaining the more open water, the bracing breeze waxed fresh; the little Moss tossed the quick foam from her bows, as a young colt his snortings.
Adjective edit
snorting (comparative more snorting, superlative most snorting)
- (colloquial) Very large or significant; whopping.
- 2005, Chris Pascoe, A Cat Called Birmingham:
- […] a snorting great monster in the shed […]
- 2008, Mark Gatiss, "Cat Among the Pigeons" (TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's Poirot novel)
- Mr. Poirot has been caught up in some absolutely snorting killings.