muzzle.
The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
Meaning & usage
The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
A person's mouth.
A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Where this word comes from
From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin mūsus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau. Displaced native Middle English kevel from Old English cæfl (“gag, bit, muzzle”), see English cavel.
To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.
Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.
To veil, mask, muffle.
To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
Where this word comes from
From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin mūsus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau. Displaced native Middle English kevel from Old English cæfl (“gag, bit, muzzle”), see English cavel.
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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.