a. and adv. [f. SNORT v.]
A. adj. 1. Accompanied or characterized by snorting or snoring; given to snorting.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 91. His nodil … droups to the growndward,… vometing with dead sleape snortye the collops.
1828. Blackw. Mag., XXIII. 494. What a snout he [the drunkard] turns up to the morning air, inflamed, pimpled, snubby, and snorty.
2. colloq. or slang. ill-tempered, captious, disagreeable.
1893. ‘Kate Wiggin,’ Cathedral Courtship, 122. She found Mrs. Gooch very snorty, very snorty indeed.
B. adv. In a snorting manner.
1892. ‘Q.’ (Quiller-Couch), I saw Three Ships, i. At the word ‘whales,’ let the music go snorty.
