asnort
English
Adjective
asnort (not comparable)
- Snorting.
- 1948, Marjorie Holmes, Ten o'clock scholar (page 156)
- A chair had already been pushed against the girls' locker room door. Whispering, almost asnort with stealthy expectation, two of the boys climbed up.
- 2001, Wesley Hall, The Hooligan Navy: A True Story about the Old Coast Guard (page 163)
- Even though it was still short of lights-out by two hours, the enlisted men's quarters was abuzz and asnort with the sounds of sleeping men when I dragged my seabag through the hatchway.
- 1948, Marjorie Holmes, Ten o'clock scholar (page 156)
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