snout
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snout
- /snaʊt/
- /snʌʊt/ Canada
Rhymes with -aʊt
Where it comes from
From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English *snūt, *snūte or Middle Low German snûte, 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.
noun snouts
- The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs. The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.
- 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.
- A person's nose. His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.
- The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc. If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
- Tobacco; cigarettes. (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.
- The terminus of a glacier.
- A police informer.
- A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.
verb snouts · snouting · snouted
- To furnish with a nozzle or point.
Thesaurus
Closest in meaning: schnozzle, beak, neb, honker, nozzle, hooter, snoot, rostrum, piglike, forehead, muzzle, nose, mouth, face, vent, chamber
Translations
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noun anterior prolongation of head of weevil and other insects
| Español | hocico, trompa, probóscide |
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noun long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
| Español | hocico |
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| 한국어 | 코, 주둥이 judung'i |
| 日本語 | 鼻面 hanazura |
| 中文 | 口吻 kǒuwěn |
| हिन्दी | थूथन thūthan |
| Português | focinho |
| Français | museau, groin |
| Deutsch | Schnauze, Hundeschnauze, Rüssel, Schweinerüssel |
| Italiano | grugno, muso |
| Ελληνικά | ρύγχος rýnchos |
| Română | bot, rât |
| Русский | мо́рда mórda, ры́ло rýlo |
| Tiếng Việt | mõm |
| العربية | خَطْم ḵaṭm |
| עברית | חוטם khótem |
noun anterior prolongation of the head of gastropod
| Español | hocico, trompa, probóscide |
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noun slang: police informer
| Français | indic |
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noun nose of a man (in contempt)
| Español | narizota, narices |
|---|---|
| Português | focinho |
| Italiano | proboscide |
| Русский | шно́бель šnóbelʹ, руби́льник rubílʹnik, ры́ло rýlo |
| עברית | חוטם khótem |
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title = {snout},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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