snork

English

Etymology

From Dutch snorken or Middle Low German snorken, ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *fnoʀukōn (to snore, snort).

Verb

snork (third-person singular simple present snorks, present participle snorking, simple past and past participle snorked)

  1. (dialectal) To snore.
  2. (intransitive) To snort, grunt; breathe or inhale noisily.
  3. (transitive, usually followed by "down") To eat quickly or voraciously
    • 2020 December 27, Dave Barry, “Dave Barry’s year in review: 2020 was a year of nonstop awfulness”, in Anchorage Daily News[1]:
      There’s a lot of it this year because there were few trick-or-treaters, leaving many Americans with no choice but to snork down the weight of an adult male cocker spaniel in mini Snickers.

Derived terms

Danish

Verb

snork

  1. imperative of snorke

Swedish

Noun

snork c

  1. (colloquial) someone impolite in a haughty manner

Declension

Declension of snork
nominative genitive
singular indefinite snork snorks
definite snorken snorkens
plural indefinite snorkar snorkars
definite snorkarna snorkarnas

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