snart
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /snɑːt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /snɑɹt/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)t
NounEdit
snart (plural snarts)
- (slang) The phenomenon where one sneezes and breaks wind at the same time.
- 2011 January 27, Robert Carlock; Beth McCarthy-Miller, director, “Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning”, in 30 Rock[2], season 5, episode 12, spoken by Liz Lemon (Tina Fey):
- I was holding in a snart, and then right when she took the photo... don't you want to know what a snart is?
- 2020 November 1, Benjamin G Hewett, Paddy Muldoon, The Amazing Lockdown Adventure (The Crystal Chronicles)[3], Penguin Random House South Africa, →ISBN, OCLC 1206238328:
- The elf knocks three times, coughs and knocks once more, followed by a snart – a tricky and highly dangerous procedure where you sneeze and fart at the same time!
VerbEdit
snart (third-person singular simple present snarts, present participle snarting, simple past and past participle snarted)
- (slang) To fart while sneezing.
- 2017, Nadine Mutas, To Stir a Fae's Passion: A Novel of Love and Magic (Love and Magic)[4], Nadine Mutas:
- Basil choked out a laugh of his own. “It snarted?”
“Snart?” She wiped at her eyes.
He grinned. “Sneeze-fart. It's a thing.”
- 2011 January 27, Robert Carlock; Beth McCarthy-Miller, director, “Operation Righteous Cowboy Lightning”, in 30 Rock, season 5, episode 12, spoken by Liz Lemon (Tina Fey):
- Okay, first of all, I look weird there because I'm snarting.
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EtymologyEdit
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PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
snart
- soon
- For den tid kommer snart... da alle andres skæbne ligger i hobbitternes hænder.
- For the time will soon come... when Hobbits will shape the fortunes of all.
- shortly
- presently
Norwegian BokmålEdit
AdjectiveEdit
snart
AdverbEdit
snart (comparative snarere, superlative snarest)
ReferencesEdit
- “snart” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian NynorskEdit
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
snart
AdjectiveEdit
snart
ReferencesEdit
- “snart” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
SwedishEdit
PronunciationEdit
audio (file)
AdjectiveEdit
snart
AdverbEdit
snart (not comparable)
- soon; within a short time