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journalists
snooping on politicians SI ^ Hk in A (ft iB # ► snooper noun = snoop n.[l)
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noun 1 (also snoop-er) a person who looks
around a
place secretly to find out
private things about sb Mfis #; A 2
[sing.] a secret look around a
place MU: He had a snoop around her
office. ffe&j&fft
snoot /snu:t/ noun (NAmE, informal) 1 a person’s nose ( A
(ft ) #7 2 (disapproving) a person who treats other people as if
they are not as good or as important as them #71?XlftA ( HX&S'JA ) ; mm snooty /'snuiti/ (also informal snotty) adj. (snoot-ier, snooti-est) (disapproving) treating people as
if they are not as good or as important as you (ft; g A ft AW Pm snobbish ► snoot-ily adv. snooti ness noun[U] snooze /snurz/ verb [V]
(informal) to have a short light
sleep, especially during the day and usually not in bed ( X fn S A ) 7
IS, fl ffi: My brother was snoozing on the sofa. o note at sleep
► snooze noun [sing.]:
I
often have a snooze after lunch.
'snooze button noun a button on a clock radio which you press when you
wake up, so that you can sleep a little longer and be woken up again after a
short time ( l[A&m®#jft ) AMHIM snore /snoi(r)/ verb, noun
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verb
[V] to breathe
noisily through your nose and mouth while you are asleep fj IT; ET Rf
R(t: I could hear Paul snoring in the next room. f%ajj
I#J&jfc!^lMlg^|0]llEr it? Rf0 ► snorer noun snoring noun [U]: loud snoring
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noun noisy breathing while
you are asleep ff Bf R#
( M ) ; fl If ( M
) : She lay awake listening to his snores.
snor kel /'snaikl; NAmE 'snoirkl/ noun a tube that you can
breathe air through when you are swimming under the surface of the water ( 7 7jt 7 (ft ) R? BS.
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snort /snort; NAmE snorrt/ verb, noun mverb 1 to make a
loud sound by breathing air out noisily through your nose, especially to show
that you are angry or amused ( )
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: [V] to
snort with laughter th # —* P % 7 0 She
snorted in disgust. M A fife Rf 7 — r
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head. S^TT^bIrIJIJL, MM® £7 0 [V speech] ‘You!’ he snorted
contemptuously. “ ifc! ” fife $£ 1§ Jfe
Rf 7 — P o 2 [VN] to take drugs by breathing them
in through the nose j$#7#.( Sop ) : to
snort cocaine
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noun 1 a loud sound that
you make by breathing air
out noisily through your
nose, especially to show that you are angry or amused ( Alt l )
, R? : to
give a snort Bf 7 — rO a snort of disgust
A3£EftB$/^ 0 I could hear the snort and stamp of ahorse. 8WWII, 2 a small
amount of a drug that is
breathed in through the nose; an act of taking a drug in this way (
7||^.7RJ£A(ft ) $ pp ; # 7 H: to take a snort of
cocaine
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snot /snnt; NAmE snart/ noun [U] (informal) a word that some
people find offensive, used to describe the liquid substance (= mucus) that is produced in the nose
( ) ,
snotty /’snnti; NAmE 'snarti/ adj.
(snot-tier,
snot-ti-est) (also , snotty-' nosed) (informal) 1 = snooty 2 full of or covered in snot (ft; ft: a snotty nose #ri
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snout /snaut/ noun 1 the long nose and
area around the mouth of some types of animal, such as a pig ( ^zft^jft ) ®—picture o page R28—com
pare muzzle 2 (informal, humorous) a person’s nose
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( A (ft ) #7 3 a part
of sth that sticks out at the front ® dj : the snout of a pistol Snow 0-w /snau; NAmE snou/ noun, verb »noun 1 [U] small soft white
pieces (called flakes) of frozen
water that fall from the sky in cold weather; this substance when it is lying
on the ground If; If7; IR if: Snow was falling heavily. IE 7 If A It 0 0 We had snow in May this year. 7 7
31^ 3£CI j&J-LT TS. 0 The snow was beginning to melt. fR
It ff tfc 14 4fc 7 0
o Children were
playing in the snow. 7 ill IE |E lfi& JI gCc 0 20cm of snow were expected today. AAMitAX 7 20 MAI¥Eft!!o 0 The snow didn’t settle (= stay on the ground). 11'$77^2 A o 0 Her skin was as white as snow. 2
snows [pi.] (literary) an amount
of snow that falls in
one particular place or at one particular time ( ~%jW: the
first snows of winter 0
the snows of
Everest (ft IE if IfiTTCI as clean, pure, etc. as
the driven 'snow extremely clean, pure, etc. A?# A
'7; mt AM
m verb 1 [V] when it snows, snow
falls from the sky 7 H: It’s been snowing heavily all day. AH7 7—UXo 2 [VN]
(NAmE,
informal) to impress sb a lot by the things you say, especially
if these are not true or not sincere ( 7 X n *5 iH ) W., aM: He really snowed me with all his talk
of buying a Porsche. #,
ii, 7 o rTTfll be snowed 'in/'up to be
unable to leave a place because of heavy snow MM®ft be snowed under (with sth) to have more things,
especially work, than you feel able to deal with ( At# A^M )i’d love to come but I’m
completely snowed under at the moment. f£ill;IIA>
be snowed
‘up (especially
of a road Xtm HSfr) to be blocked
with snow MffEtfi snow-ball /‘snauboil; NAmE ‘snou-/ noun, verb a noun 1 [C] a ball that you
make out of snow to throw at sb/sth in a game if $7 a snowball fight 0 2 [sing.]
(often used as an adjective XMWM) a situation that
develops more and more quickly as it continues H 0 A M (ft If M: All this publicity has had a
snowball effect on the sales of their latest album. f$Xtftiifn®rr"R7fft^f:AA7 3 [C] a
cocktail (- a type of alcoholic
drink) that contains
ADVOCAAT and LEMONADE ^
j7^ '?v7jC ) fTCTl not have a snowball’s chance in
'hell (informal) to have no chance at all MAXKTfA M
■ verb [V] if a problem, a
plan, an activity, etc. snowballs, it quickly becomes much
bigger, more serious, more important, etc.
^ )
the 'Snow Belt noun [sing.] (informal) the northern and
north-eastern states of the
snow-bird /'snaubaid; NAmE 'snoub3:rd/ noun (NAmE, informal) a person who spends
the winter in a warmer climate, especially an old person from the north of the
a
'snow-blind adj. unable to see because of the light reflected from a large
area of snow If H (ft ► 'snow- blindness noun [U]
snow blow er /'snaoblao0(r); NAmE 'snoublouar/ noun a machine that
removes snow from roads or paths by blowing it to one side nftlfjjl
snow-board /'snaubord; NAmE 'snouboird/ noun a long wide board
that a person stands on to move over snow in the sport of snowboarding S M
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SKIING
snow-board-ing/'sneubo:dir);/V/4/?7E'snoubo:rd-//?ou/7[lJ]
the
sport of moving over snow on a snowboard jflf M $: to go snowboarding 0 Snow
boarding is now an Olympic sport.
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