Sniff vs. Snort — What's the Difference?

To inhale a short, audible breath through the nose, as in smelling something.

A rough, noisy sound made by breathing forcefully through the nostrils, as a horse or pig does.

To sniffle.

A similar sound

To use the sense of smell, as in savoring or investigating

A drink of liquor, especially when swallowed in one gulp.

To regard something in a contemptuous or dismissive manner

Cocaine or heroin, especially a small amount sniffed at one time.

(Informal) To pry; snoop

The liquor or drug so taken.

To inhale forcibly through the nose

To breathe noisily and forcefully through the nostrils.

To smell, as in savoring or investigating

To make a sound resembling noisy exhalation

To perceive or detect by or as if by sniffing

To make an abrupt noise expressive of scorn, ridicule, or contempt.

To utter in a contemptuous or haughty manner

To ingest a drug, such as cocaine or heroin, by sniffing.

An instance or the sound of sniffing.

To express by snorting

Something sniffed or perceived by or as if by sniffing; a whiff

To ingest by sniffing

(ambitransitive) To make a short, audible inhalation, through the nose, as when smelling something.

The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.

(transitive) To say (something) while sniffing, such as in case of illness or unhappiness, or in contempt.

(slang) A dose of snuff or other drug to be snorted.

(transitive) To perceive vaguely.

(slang) A consumed portion of alcoholic drink.

(intransitive) To pry; to investigate in an interfering manner.

A submarine snorkel.

To be dismissive or contemptuous of something.

(intransitive) To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.

(computing) To intercept and analyse packets of data being transmitted over a network.

(transitive) To express or force out by snorting.

To inhale drugs (usually cocaine) through the nose, usually in powder form.

To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.

(countable) An instance of sniffing.

To snore.

(countable) A quantity of something that is inhaled through the nose.

To sail at periscope depth through the use of a snort or snorkel.

A brief perception, or tiny amount.

To force the air with violence through the nose, so as to make a noise, as do high-spirited horsed in prancing and play.

Cocaine.

To snore.

A short inhalation sound, sometimes associated with crying.

To laugh out loudly.

To draw air audibly up the nose; to snuff; - sometimes done as a gesture of suspicion, offense, or contempt.

To expel throught the nostrils with a snort; to utter with a snort.

To draw in with the breath through the nose; as, to sniff the air of the country.

The act of snorting; the sound produced in snorting.

To perceive as by sniffing; to snuff, to scent; to smell; as, to sniff danger.

A disrespectful laugh

The act of sniffing; perception by sniffing; that which is taken by sniffing; as, a sniff of air.

A cry or noise made to express displeasure or contempt

Sensing an odor by inhaling through the nose

Indicate contempt by breathing noisily and forcefully through the nose;

Perceive by inhaling through the nose;

Make a snorting sound by exhaling hard;

Inhale audibly through the nose;

Inhale recreational drugs

Inhale through the nose

Ingest through the nose;