saw wood

English

Pronunciation

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Verb

saw wood (third-person singular simple present saws wood, present participle sawing wood, simple past sawed wood, past participle sawed wood or sawn wood)

1. (idiomatic) To snore loudly.
   • 1998 January 23, Diane Chang, “Monsignor Kekumano is now in heaven”, in Honolulu Star-Bulletin:

     Monsignor Charles Kekumano, 78, was snoring loudly in his bed. Every so often, he would stop sawing wood—and break into the delightfully mischievous grin that made him so famous.

   • 2009, Elizabeth Haydon, The Dragon's Lair, →ISBN, page 125:

     "You keep all of Mouse Lodge awake sawing wood every night. You're a fine one to complain about someone else snoring."

Synonyms

• saw logs

Translations

idioms meaning "to snore"

• Finnish: vetää hirsiä
• Hungarian: húzza a lóbőrt (literally “to pull [stretch] the horseskin [with a crackling sound]”), horkol (hu), hortyog (hu), durmol (hu)

References

• Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.