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Night nuisance
Answer for the clue "Night nuisance ", 5 letters:
snore
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Word definitions for snore in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., probably related to snort (v.) and both probably of imitative origin (compare Dutch snorken , Middle High German snarchen , German schnarchen , Swedish snarka ; see snout ). Related: Snored ; snoring .
Usage examples of snore.
Out of breath, I threw myself on a sofa, pretending to go to sleep, and the moment I began to snore everybody respected the slumbers of Pierrot.
Mr Ibbs cooks bloaters, while his sister screams, while Gentleman coughs in his bed, while Mrs Sucksby turns in hers, and snores, and sighs.
No, none of that, only snoring priests and bogmen but where were they?
Several times Jonathan could hear him clumping into the bedroom to have a peek at Cosset, who still snored away.
Several times Jonathan could hear him clumping into the bedroom to have a peek at Gosset, who still snored away.
Henri de la Fontaine Coq curled himself up on a mattress on the floor, with three times his share of the blankets, and began to snore before we were in the ship ten minutes.
After aligning girl behind woman, he nudged them through the gate to his warehouse office, where they were met by the snores of Van Deef, penetrating the closed inner door.
Its mattress of carefully laid pine boughs creaked lightly as it took his weight, blending with the strangled snore that came from in front the dead fireplace as Doxy turned over in her sleep.
Ray began to snore, a sputtering exsufflation punctuated by quiet, as if someone were holding his nose shut at intervals.
That damned cloud decided to move away from the moon, and we were pinned in bright yellow beams, and the snores stopped suddenly, and a grotesque figure sat up in bed and leveled a gangrened finger.
Even the gleeman did not begin snoring till long after the last coals died.
Septimus was snoring in oafish slumber, Miss Gumm arose, put on her bathing suit, terry-cloth cloak, and sneakers, and went along the snow-covered path to the lake.
Towards midnight, having had occasion to get out of bed, and hearing the loud snoring of the prefect, I quickly put out the lantern and went to lie beside my friend.
One story told of Great Hina, the queen of death, says that this aspect of the goddess slept eternally, a huge naked woman snoring through an open mouth.
Given the quantity of food the serpent had just ingested, Oskar was grateful that snakes did not snore.