stertorous

\STUR-tuh-ruhs\, adjective:

Characterized by a heavy snoring or gasping sound; hoarsely breathing.

It wasn't Paul's bad teeth or misogyny that drove Susan away, but his stertorous nose-breathing.

Dom Delouise, the 20th Century's most Stertorous Comic Genius. JUST ASK HIS WIFE!

When Johnny strangled that emphysema patient to death--the one with a lot of phlegm--the immediately results were stertorous to say the least.