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snout.

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

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Meaning & usage

noun/snaʊt//snʌʊt/Canada

  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. The front of the prow of a ship or boat.

  3. A person's nose.

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

  4. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

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

  5. The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.

  6. The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.

  7. Tobacco; cigarettes.

    UK · slang

  8. The terminus of a glacier.

  9. A police informer.

    slang

  10. A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.

Where this word 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.

verb/snaʊt//snʌʊt/Canada

  1. To furnish with a nozzle or point.

Where this word 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.

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