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▪ I. snorting, vbl. n.1|ˈsnɔːrtɪŋ|
[f. snort v.]
The action of the vb.
1575Gascoigne Glasse Govt. Wks. 1910 II. 61 Assone as ever shee is laid she falleth on snorting. 1589Warner Alb. Eng. vi. xxx. 51 Her Lubber now was snorting ripe. 1601Dent Pl. Man's Pathw. 164 The properties of drunkards:..their staggering, their reeling, their snorting. 1655Culpepper, etc. Riverius vii. i. 147 Asthma is a great and often breathing..joyned with snorting and wheesing. 1733Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. xiii. (1734) 246 A constant Snorting or Snoring in the Throat and Nostrils. 1849Sk. Nat. Hist., Mammalia III. 15 At each snorting the animal spouted out large streams of blood. 1864Reader 16 Jan. 68 The snorting of a tiger (for the sound this animal makes singularly resembles that of an enormous..pig). 1884Manch. Exam. 7 Oct. 5/7 The snorting of the postal steamer.
b. spec. in Path.
1887Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Apr. 730/1 Rhinitis with Spasmodic ‘Snorting’.
▪ II. snorting, vbl. n.2
see snort n.2
▪ III. ˈsnorting, ppl. a.
[f. as snorting vbl. n.1]
1. That snorts; † snoring.
1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 17 To raise betimes the lubberlie, both snorting Hob and Margerie. 1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. ii. i. Ark 553 He wallowes on the ground His shame-lesse snorting trunk, so deeply drown'd In self⁓oblivion. 1601Hakluyt Galvano's Disc. World 85 marg., Snorting fishes. 1602F. Herring Anat. 2 A laizie, drowzie, and slothfull-snorting Thersites. 1767Jago Edge-Hill iii. 110 Oft will his snorting Steed, with Terror struck, His wonted Speed refuse. 1782Cowper Gilpin 83 The snorting beast began to trot. 1848Johns Week at Lizard 233 Encountering a shoal of snorting porpoises. 1875in F. T. Buckland Log Book 84 note, A steam-ship is not a huge snorting monster trying to run over sailing ships.
2. Of the nature of, or resembling, a snort; characterized by snorts.
1825Jamieson Suppl. s.v. Snirt, A snorting noise from the nostrils. 1833M. Scott Tom Cringle xvii, One of the three men..sounded a short snorting note on a..horn. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xxiv, Mrs. Kelly..uttering indignant ejaculations in a sort of snorting manner.
3. Of weather or wind: Severe, rough, violent.
1824Southey Lett. (1856) III. 450 When I have told you that it is snorting weather. 1888–9Osbourne in G. Balfour Life Stevenson (1911) xiii. 196 When..we got our wind, it was a snorting Trade, and we ran into the harbour like a steamboat.
4. Exceptionally remarkable for excellence, size, strength, etc. (In quot. as advb.) colloq. rare.
1924Galsworthy White Monkey ii. ix. 195 I've played bridge with him,..—snorting good player.
Hence ˈsnortingly adv., in a snorting manner; with a snort.
1853Kane Grinnell Exped. xx. (1856) 160 They invariably rose after plunging, and looked snortingly around. |