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单词 snoring
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snoringn.

/ˈsnɔːrɪŋ/
Etymology: < snore v.
a. The action of the verb. Also transferred.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [noun] > snoring
routingc1405
snoringc1440
snorting1575
stertorousness1845
stertoriousnessa1849
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 462/1 Snorynge, stertura.
?1533 G. Du Wes Introductorie for to lerne Frenche sig. Ci v The snowring, le roufler.
a1616 F. Beaumont Charme v, in Poems (1640) H iv b Sable Midnight makes all dumbe, But thy jealous husbands snoring.
1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 208. ⁋6 We have a Member of our Club, that when Sir Jeffery falls asleep, wakens him with Snoring.
1781 R. Burke in Burke's Corr. (1844) II. 404 The meditations of the judge, the snoring of jurors.
1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xxiv The dormitory, where..a concert of snoring began to be executed.
1897 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. v It was the snoring of Wynne in a drunken sleep: it filled the entire cottage.
1935 A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. ix. 69 There was a silence, broken only by the snoring of air through the wind-bore cast of the pump.
1935 A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. ix. 70 The snoring of the pump had stopped.
1951 R. Hargreaves This Happy Breed ix. 102 The obscene snorings of the saxophone.
b. spec. in Pathology (see quots.).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sounds heard in body > [noun] > sounds heard in auscultation
bombus1753
hydatism1753
pectoriloquism1820
murmur1821
resonance1821
snoring1822
thrill1822
râle1825
pectoriloquy1826
respiration1826
rhonchus1827
bronchophonism1834
bronchophony1834
hum1839
tick-tack1853
friction-sound1860
friction-fremitus1877
sibilus1887
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 467 Rhonchus Stertor. Snoring.
1834 J. Forbes tr. R. T. H. Laennec Treat. Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 49 We can distinguish five principal kinds of rhonchi:..3. the dry sonorous rhonchus, or snoring.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

snoringadj.

Etymology: formed as snoring n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈsnoring.
1. That snores. Also figurative.
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the world > life > the body > respiratory organs > breathing > audible breathing > [adjective] > snoring
snurting1567
snorting1573
snoring1688
stertorous1802
stertorious1803
rhonchal1857
1688 G. Miege Great French Dict. i. sig. Hhh3v/2 Ronfleur,..a snoring Man.
1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week vi. 36 Cic'ly, brisk maid, steps forth.., And kiss'd with smacking lip the snoring lout.
1809 N. Pinkney Trav. South of France 131 I was lying at one end of a dirty room, the other being occupied by the snoring landlord.
1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy i. 111 He is of those Who steal the keys from snoring Destiny.
1894 Outing 24 119/2 Great rocks which resemble the snouts of snoring humans.
2. Of a breeze: Strong, stiff.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > strong
strongeOE
stiffc1290
sternc1374
wrothc1400
vehement1483
strainable1497
freshc1515
stout1533
bloysterous?1570
ruffing1577
boisterous?1594
lofty1600
chafing1762
blustery1774
smacking1820
snoring1822
spanking1849
gale force1902
1822 A. Cunningham Mariner's Song ii But give to me the snoring breeze, And white waves heaving high.
1885 J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 78 A snoring breeze came away from the southward.
3. Having the characteristic sound of a snore; loud and harsh.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adjective] > snort, snore, or snarl
snarling1602
snorting1825
snoring1837
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. iv. iii. 224 Sleeping Paris is now..silent except for some snoring hum.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 610 On the left side the respiration was loud and ‘snoring’... Posteriorly the ‘snoring’ breathing was audible everywhere.
1898 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. V. 1018 Most frequently it [a presystolic murmur] is snoring or rolling.

Derivatives

ˈsnoringly adv.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > unpleasant quality > harsh or discordant quality > [adverb] > snorting, snoring, or snarling
snoringly1824
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 593 A set of prosy lines slumber along snoringly.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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