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snout

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English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishsnowte,snoute, fromMiddle Dutch orMiddle Low Germansnute (alternatively spelledsnuut,snuyt), fromProto-West Germanic*snūt, fromProto-Germanic*snūtaz.

CompareSaterland FrisianSnuute,Dutchsnuit orsnoet(“snout; cute face”),GermanSchnauze,Schnute.Doublet ofsnoot.

Pronunciation

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IPA^(key): /snaʊt/
(Canada)IPA^(key): /snʌʊt/
Audio(US): (file)
Rhymes:-aʊt

Noun

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snout (pluralsnouts)

The long, projectingnose,mouth, andjaw of a beast, as of pigs.
The pig rooted around in the dirt with itssnout.
The front of the prow of a ship or boat.[First attested in 1387.]^[1]
- 1944,Miles Burton,The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5:
  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 bluntsnout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
(derogatory) A person'snose.
His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominentsnout.
- 1662 (indicated as1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, inHudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn andHenry Herringman, […], published1678; republished inA[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor,Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:University Press,1905,→OCLC:
  Whether hissnout a perfect nose is,
  And not an elephant's proboscis
- 1953,Samuel Beckett,Watt,[Paris]:Olympia Press,→OCLC:
  The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down thesnout — Haw! — so.
Thenozzle of apipe,hose, etc.
If you place thesnout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
Theanterior prolongation of the head of agastropod; arostrum.
The anterior prolongation of the head ofweevils and alliedbeetles; arostrum.
(British, slang)Tobacco;cigarettes.
- 1967, Len Deighton,Only When I Larf:
  (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.
- 1982, Edward Bond,Saved:
  LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us somesnout. / MIKE. Five or ten?
- 2000, Joe Randolph Ackerley, P N Furbank,We Think the World of You:
  Also he was "doing his nut" for some "snout." I said I would provide cigarettes.
- 2004, Allan Sillitoe,New and Collected Stories:
  Raymond rolled a neat cigarette. "What about somesnout, then?" "No, thanks." He laughed. Smoke drifted from his open mouth.
The terminus of a glacier.
(slang) Apolice informer.
A butterfly in thenymphalid subfamilyLibytheinae, notable for the snout-likeelongation on their heads.