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asnort en · ADJ

Pronunciation

  • /əˈsnɔː(ɹ)t/

Etymology

From a- + snort.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Snorting.
    • Even though it was still short of lights-out by two hours, the enlisted men's quarters was abuzz and asnort with the sounds of sleeping men when I dragged my seabag through the hatchway. 2001, Wesley Hall, The Hooligan Navy: A True Story about the Old Coast Guard, page 163:
    • A chair had already been pushed against the girls' locker room door. Whispering, almost asnort with stealthy expectation, two of the boys climbed up. 1948, Marjorie Holmes, Ten o'clock scholar, page 156: