snorter
English
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[edit]Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)
Noun
[edit]snorter (plural snorters)
- One who snorts.
- (slang) Something extraordinary or remarkable.
- The batsman succumbed to a snorter of short balls from the bowler and nicked a thin edge to the keeper.
- (UK, slang) Something that is extremely difficult.
- The maths problem is a real snorter, isn't it?
- (slang) A punch on the nose.
- 1855, Frank L. Dowling, Fights for the Championship and Celebrated Prize Battles, page 128:
- Both ready, and on their guard; Burke evidently waiting for Byrne to commence; but incautiously putting down his hands to wipe them on his drawers, Byrne, as quick as lightning, popped in a snorter.
- 1857, George Borrow, The Romany Rye:
- And thereupon, remembering that he had threatened to wring my nose, I gave him a snorter upon his own.
- (nautical, slang) A powerful gale.