2011年11月27日 星期日

2011_11_27 stertor \STUR-ter\, noun: A heavy snoring sound.

stertor \STUR-ter\, noun:
A heavy snoring sound.
He was snoring, a wheeze and stertor that animated the papers scattered round him...
 -- T.C. Boyle, Riven Rock
The stertor of Meat's breathing came softly, almost soothingly, through the wall.
 -- Chad Harbach, The Art of Fielding
Stertor comes from the Latin stret which meant “to snore.”

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