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▪ I. snoring, vbl. n.|ˈsnɔərɪŋ| [f. snore v.] a. The action of the vb. Also transf.
c1440Promp. Parv. 462/1 Snorynge, stertura. 1532G. Du Wes Introd. Fr. in Palsgr. 906 The snowring, le ronfler. a1616Beaumont Charme v. Poems (1640) H iv b, Sable Midnight makes all dumbe, But thy jealous husbands snoring. 1710Steele Tatler No. 208 ⁋6 We have a Member of our Club, that when Sir Jeffery falls asleep, wakens him with Snoring. 1781R. Burke in Burke's Corr. (1844) II. 404 The meditations of the judge, the snoring of jurors. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xxiv, The dormitory, where..a concert of snoring began to be executed. 1897Watts-Dunton Aylwin ii. v, It was the snoring of Wynne in a drunken sleep: it filled the entire cottage. 1935A. J. Cronin Stars look Down i. ix. 69 There was a silence, broken only by the snoring of air through the wind-bore cast of the pump. Ibid. 70 The snoring of the pump had stopped. 1951R. Hargreaves This Happy Breed ix. 102 The obscene snorings of the saxophone. b. spec. in Path. (see quots.).
1822–7Good Study Med. (1829) I. 537 Rhonchus Stertor. Snoring. 1834J. Forbes Laennec's Dis. Chest (ed. 4) 49 We can distinguish five principal kinds of rhonchi:..3. the dry sonorous rhonchus, or snoring. ▪ II. ˈsnoring, ppl. a. [f. as prec.] 1. That snores. Also fig.
1687Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. i, Ronfleur,..a snoring Man. 1714Gay Sheph. Week vi. 36 Cic'ly, brisk maid, steps forth.., And kiss'd with smacking lip the snoring lout. 1809N. Pinkney Trav. France 131, I was lying at one end of a dirty room, the other being occupied by the snoring landlord. 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy i. 118 He is of those Who steal the keys from snoring Destiny. 1894Outing XXIV. 119/2 Great rocks which resemble the snouts of snoring humans. 2. Of a breeze: Strong, stiff.
1822A. Cunningham Mariner's Song ii, But give to me the snoring breeze, And white waves heaving high. 1885J. Runciman Skippers & Shellbacks 78 A snoring breeze came away from the southward. 3. Having the characteristic sound of a snore; loud and harsh.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. iv. iii, Sleeping Paris is now..silent except for some snoring hum. 1879St. George's Hosp. Rep. IX. 610 On the left side the respiration was loud and ‘snoring’... Posteriorly the ‘snoring’ breathing was audible everywhere. 1898Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 1018 Most frequently it [a presystolic murmur] is snoring or rolling. Hence ˈsnoringly adv.
1824Blackw. Mag. XV. 593 A set of prosy lines slumber along snoringly. |