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  • adverb With a snorting sound.

Etymologies

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snorting +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The idea of him doing this, it must be said, is snortingly funny.

    Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever 2010

  • The idea of him doing this, it must be said, is snortingly funny.

    Ginny Dougary: Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever Ginny Dougary 2010

  • The idea of him doing this, it must be said, is snortingly funny.

    Ginny Dougary: Ricky Gervais in His Most 'Postmodern' Interview Ever 2010

  • It's mostly Oscar's witty, knowledgeable and often rip-snortingly funny commentary.

    Getting It On With Dissimilar Triplets Don Lewis 2008

  • A muddy pallor overspread her face; her breath came snortingly; the pinched nose strained upwards.

    Mary Christina 2004

  • For a time he stood behind her at the hearth, breathing snortingly, and at times seeming to laugh; said in a half-voice, "A fire fit to roast an ox!" and for a space was busy moving lumps of coal down into the grate.

    The Judge Rebecca West 1937

  • At last they saw the black bug of a machine crawling snortingly across the twenty-mile strip of sand between them and the pass through the Cocopa Mountains.

    The Desert Fiddler 1902

  • John snortingly invoked the hottest place he could think of.

    Laramie Holds the Range 1898

  • After a second's wait -- snortingly impatient on Mr. Wilder's part; he was being pressed close by the none too clean citizens of Valedolmo -- the door was opened a very small crack by a frowsy jailoress.

    Jerry Junior Jean Webster 1896

  • After a second's wait -- snortingly impatient on Mr. Wilder's part; he was being pressed close by the none too clean citizens of Valedolmo -- the door was opened a very small crack by a frowsy jailoress.

    Jerry Jean Webster 1896

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