verb. (colloquial).—To laugh in derision.
1835. HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), The Clockmaker, I. xix. I thought I should have SNORTED right out two or three times … to hear the critter let her clapper run that fashion.
1834. C. A. DAVIS, Letters of Jack Downing, Major, 15. We all SNORTED and sniker’d.
1891. O. THANET, An Irish Gentlewoman in the Famine Time, in The Century Magazine, xli. Jan., 340. ‘Such airs!’ he SNORTED; ‘the likes of them drinking tea.’
