Well not me personally – I sleep (oddly and somewhat uncomfortably) on my stomach, so I don’t think that I do, but the quote just appeals to me in its blunt honesty.
It is from Jehan’s Palsgrave 1530 Lesclarcissement de la langue françoyse. My source is the delightful Oxford English Dictionary email word of the day, which you can also get as an RSS feed.
And being the OED you’re bound to learn at least new usages, if not new words. (They seem generally not to be going for the wholly obscure.)
But I didn’t know that a boat could snore …
c. Of a ship, etc.: To move or cut through the water with a roaring sound; to sail or travel quickly. Chiefly Sc
e.g.From Cupples, George, The green hand; or, the naval lieutenant 1856, p36 “The pilot-boat snoring off close-hauled to windward.”
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