snorting

A snort sound or action.

Adjective

  1. Very large or significant; whopping.
    • […] a snorting great monster in the shed […] - 2005, Chris Pascoe, A Cat Called Birmingham:
    • Mr. Poirot has been caught up in some absolutely snorting killings. - 2008, Mark Gatiss, "Cat Among the Pigeons" (TV adaptation of Agatha Christie's Poirot novel)

Forms

more snorting most snorting

Derived

snortingly

Noun

  1. A snort sound or action.
    • At length it grew dark; they though, they heard a sound of whizzing and snorting in the air, such as the swans use to make in the; winter time. - 1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William...
    • 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. - 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st...

Forms

snortings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of snort