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Snout

//snaʊt// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

    "The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout."

  2. 2
    a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose wordnet
  3. 3
    The front of the prow of a ship or boat.

    "The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green."

  4. 4
    beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils wordnet
  5. 5
    A person's nose. derogatory

    "His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout."

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  1. 6
    informal terms for the nose wordnet
  2. 7
    The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

    "If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much."

  3. 8
    The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
  4. 9
    The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
  5. 10
    Tobacco; cigarettes. British, slang

    "(Bob, p. 55:) Charlie was the most vicious screw on the block ... He caught me with the two ounces of snout right in my hand, caught me by the hair, and swung me round in the exercise yard ... (Spider, p. 175:) She brings me snout and sweets, and sometimes a cake from Mum."

  6. 11
    The terminus of a glacier.
  7. 12
    A police informer. slang
  8. 13
    A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.
Verb
  1. 1
    To furnish with a nozzle or point.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English *snūt, from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute (“snout”), West Frisian snút (“snout”), Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Low German Snuut (“snout”), German Schnauze, Schnute (“snout”). Doublet of snoot.

Etymology 2

From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English *snūt, from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute (“snout”), West Frisian snút (“snout”), Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Low German Snuut (“snout”), German Schnauze, Schnute (“snout”). Doublet of snoot.

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