Answer to "Contemptuous sound" crossword clue

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 5 letter word SNORT , but the solution may also be PFFT which is one of the most recent solution (2020 in LA Times).

Contemptuous sound crossword clue answers

Here's a list of possible crossword answers ranked by the most likely to least likely.

Answer	Likelyness	Letters
SNORT	57 %	5
POOH	14 %	4
PFFT	14 %	4
SSS	14 %	3

Words with a meaning similar to the clue: Contemptuous sound

These words may or may not be a possible solution to this crosswords clue.

• hiss
• boo
• jeer
• mock
• ridicule
• run on
• challenged
• chip
• slew
• mockery
• purport
• mocking

Crossword Answer definitions

SNORT noun

1. The sound made by exhaling or inhaling roughly through the nose.
2. A dose of a drug to be snorted. Here, "drug" includes snuff (i.e., pulverized tobacco).
3. A consumed portion of alcoholic drink.
4. A submarine snorkel.

SNORT verb

1. To make a snort; to exhale roughly through the nose.
2. To express or force out by snorting.
3. To inhale (usually a drug) through the nose.
4. To snore.
5. (of submarines) To sail at periscope depth through the use of a snort or snorkel.

More crossword clues leading to the same solutions

Here's a few more crossword clues - all leading to the identical solution

More clues leading to the result SNORT

• Express contempt
• Horsey comment
• Huff and puff
• Noisy, nasal sound
• Bullish comment
• Stall call
• Tavern quickie
• Contemptuous sound
• Horse sound
• Bit of laughter

More clues leading to the result POOH

• __-Bah ("The Mikado" character)
• Christopher's friend
• Milne's "The House at __ Corner"
• ____-Bah ("The Mikado" character)
• __-Bah
• Eeyore's friend
• Milne's bear
• Pal of Tigger
• "Bear of very little brain"
• Cartoon character who sings "Rumbly in My Tumbly"

More clues leading to the result PFFT

• Fizzing-out sound
• "Yeah, whatever!"
• Dismissive sound
• Raspberry
• Fizzling sound
• Going-out sound
• Fizzling-out sound
• Fizzling-out sound effect
• "All gone"
• Sound of something going kaput

More clues leading to the result SSS

• 1970's lottery org.
• Draft agcy.
• Draft inits.
• Draft org.
• Govt. agcy.
• Conscription org.
• Former draft org.
• Gen. Hershey directed it, 1941-70
• Sound as a tire goes flat
• Draft init.