Schnozzle

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The human nose, especially one that is large. slang

    "Buster Keaton is the plumber, passionate or otherwise, and he is more than ably assisted by the Schnozzle, Jimmy Durante."

  2. 2
    informal terms for the nose wordnet

Synonyms

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Example

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"Buster Keaton is the plumber, passionate or otherwise, and he is more than ably assisted by the Schnozzle, Jimmy Durante."

Etymology

Probably from Yiddish שנויץ (shnoyts, “snout”), cognate to German Schnauze (“snout, muzzle”) and English snout. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests the word may be pseudo-Yiddish coined in English. Attested since 1930.

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