# snoot
## English
### Etymology

From Scots snoot, snout (“snout”), from Middle English snowte, from Middle Dutch snute; ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Doublet of snout.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /snuːt/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -uːt

### Noun

snoot (plural snoots)
* (informal) An elitist individual; one who looks down upon lower social classes.
** 1943, Lucius Morris Beebe, Snoot if You Must‎, D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, page 44:The sidecars— sneer if you will, you purists and gastronomic snoots— at Perino's in Wilshire in Los Angeles.
** 1990 February 4, Vanessa Nemeth, Stephanie Poggi, “Bumps And All”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 12:At first, I had no idea you had money, and you didn't seem like a snoot. The place where you were renting was a dumpy place. When you turned out to have money, I was surprised.
** 2013 October 29, Moosewood Collective, Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant: Ethnic and Regional Recipes from the Cooks at the Legendary Restaurant‎, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 96:In defense of low-grade teas, I must say they are very cheap, and I have a large box in my cupboard right next to the higher quality, more snoot-worthy varieties.
** 2014 January 31, Robert B Parker, Perish Twice‎, Oldcastle Books, →ISBN, page 73:“Do you know any of Larry's other partners?” “Some.” “Do you know Mary Lou Goddard?” “Oh, that snoot.” “Snoot?” “Yes, Larry told me about her. He went out with her a couple of times and then she got possessive.”
* A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
* (dialectal or slang) A nose or snout, especially in derogatory use.
** 2013 March 3 [1966], Friedrich Reck, translated by Paul Rubens, Diary of a Man in Despair‎, New York Review of Books, →ISBN, page 173:And then he did something which must be unprecedented in jurisprudence. He leaped from his chair, ran over to the old man, and shaking his fist under his nose, roared: 'Listen, you! If you keep on with this stuff, I'll punch you one in the snoot!
* (Internet slang, childish, humorous) Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo"), cat ("catto"), or snake ("snek").
* (theater, photography) A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.
** 2014 December 26, Alyn Stafford, Flash Techniques for Location Portraiture: Single and Multiple-Flash Lighting Techniques‎, Amherst Media, →ISBN, page 36:Snoots have traditionally been round in shape when attached to studio strobes, but with flash photography, they have taken on a more rectangular shape because the flash heads are rectangular.

#### Synonyms

* (nose): See Thesaurus:nose

#### Derived terms

* droop snoot

#### Related terms

* snootful
* snooty

#### Translations
### Verb

snoot (third-person singular simple present snoots, present participle snooting, simple past and past participle snooted)
* To behave disdainfully toward someone. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
* (transitive, theater, photography) To apply a snoot attachment to (a light).
** 2011, Joe McNally, Sketching Light:Which might mean shaping it, gelling it, snooting it, barn dooring it, and putting it on a stand or a clamp. Maybe taking the dome diffuser off. Perhaps zooming it. Oh my. And you thought you were just taking a picture.

### Anagrams

* Notos, ONTOS, Ontos, Soton, oonts, tonos, toons

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Verb

snoot
* singular past indicative of snuiten

## Scots
### Etymology

From Middle English snowte. Cognate with English snout.

### Noun

snoot (plural snoots)
* (anatomy) snout, face, head
* (geography) a projecting point of land
* peak of a cap
* (slang) detective, policeman

#### Derived terms

* snoot-cloot