Talk:snortle
Add topicLatest comment: 6 years ago by Equinox in topic Etymology
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Etymology
[edit]Appears in Chambers 1908 as a variant of snirtle, which makes me suspicious of the snort + chortle blend etymology, chortle being a Carroll coinage from Alice in Wonderland, and blends of this kind not being especially common back then. Equinox ◑ 19:32, 1 September 2018 (UTC)