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the laugh you can't fake and can't take back, a betrayal of how funny it really was
means To force air noisily through the nose, whether as a sound of contempt, amusement, or in the involuntary burst that escapes when you laugh too hard.
from From Middle English 'snorten,' kin to 'snore' — both belong to a little family of imitative words that simply mimic the rude, snuffling noise the nose makes. Germanic in roots and onomatopoeic at heart: the word is more or less the sound itself, written down.
- involuntary tell
- escapes when willpower loses to genuine amusement
- animal range
- horses, pigs, and gorillas all snort to communicate
- defense mechanism
- some animals snort to signal alarm or threat
- sleep cousin
- the snort can jolt a snorer awake mid-breath
- word origin
- likely imitates the actual sound it names
cocaine nasal insufflation — most common illicit drug administration method; accounts for ~70% of cocaine use in us
intel snort ids — network intrusion detection system released 1998, now open-source, widely deployed in cybersecurity
equine snort vocalization — horses produce sharp nasal exhalations through nostrils as social signaling or distress response