snootful

• “While Dr. Hinkle admits he has barely scratched the surface in his article, yet in "Street-Language Naming Practices in the Hispanic Dr.g and Underworld Subcultures," he goes into great detail and tells us quite a bit (e.g., that a snort of cocaine is called a narizón, from the Spanish nariz, ` nose, 'which compares to English slang' snootful ').”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4

• “I am getting a stiff breeze and a snootful of hypocrisy here by the spinmeisters of hypocrisy.”

  Think Progress » FACT CHECK: Health Care Reform Will Not Move Military Health Care ‘To The Department That Handles Welfare’

• “People began peeling off rolls of bills to pay and slipping little packets into their purses and pockets and then sliding off to the toilets to snort the first snootful.”

  Simon & Schuster: EVENING’S EMPIRE

• “And armor will only make things worse—imagine being stuck inside a wee metal cabin with a snootful of spices!”

  Simon & Schuster: Behemoth

• “Snow, slush, and just enough ice made it challenging to rein in a sixty-pound critter intent on a snootful of spring.”

  Aint No Santa without those Elves

• “Added to my frustration was the snootful of Adam Nagourney concern trolling in the IHT about why Obama can't get above 50%.”

  FactCheck.Org Gets It Right: McCain's Troop Visit Attack Ad Is False

• “I don't think that's going to have any effect, though, because people seem to be getting a real snootful of the grumpy old man at the top of the ticket.”

  McCain Campaign Pulling Out Of Michigan And Staffing Up In Virginia

• “In the same way that breathing in a snootful of ammonia will take your breath away as well.”

  Clinton Camp: Obama Shouldn't Get Away With Writing Off West Virginia Loss

• “No. Those stories about him groping women barely made a blip on the national media screen, but if he were Veep choice, we'd get a snootful of them, no doubt, taking the spotlight off Obama.”

  Bayh As Veep? But He Co-Chaired Neocon Committee For The Liberation Of Iraq With McCain!

• “I think it was a snootful of some pollen or another.”

  It was supposed to be a joke.

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