snorter
nounEtymology From snort + -er.
1
One who snorts.
2
Slang Something extraordinary or remarkable.
- The batsman succumbed to a snorter of short balls from the bowler and nicked a thin edge to the keeper.
4
Slang A punch on the nose.
- Both ready, and on their guard; Burke evidently waiting for Byrne to commence; but incautiously putting down his hands to wipe them on his drawers, Byrne, as quick as lightning, popped in a snorter.1855, Frank L. Dowling, Fights for the Championship and Celebrated Prize Battles, page 128:
- And thereupon, remembering that he had threatened to wring my nose, I gave him a snorter upon his own.1857, George Borrow, The Romany Rye:
- Derived terms
- short snorter