snore

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   breathe noisily during one's sleep

   I complained that my friend snores.

2. 2
   verb

   To breathe during sleep with harsh, snorting noises caused by vibration of the soft palate.

   While you here do ſnoaring lie, / Open-ey'd Conſpiracie / His time doth take: / If of Life you keepe a care, / Shake off ſlumber, and beware. / Awake, awake.

3. 3
   noun

   the act of snoring or producing a snoring sound

4. 4
   noun

   the rattling noise produced when snoring

5. 5
   noun

   The act of snoring, and the noise produced.

6. 6
   noun

   An extremely boring person or event.

Etymology

From Middle English snoren, fnoren (“to snore loudly; snort”), from Middle English snore, *fnore (“snore; snort”, noun), from Old English fnora (“snort; sneezing”), from Proto-Germanic *fnuzô, from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe; snort; sneeze”). Compare also Proto-West Germanic *snarkōn, Middle Low German snorren (“to drone”), Dutch snorren (“to hum, purr”). The change fn → sn in this word is regular, seen also in sneeze, from Middle English fnesen (see sneeze for more).