snout
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: 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.
Inflected forms:
form: snouts
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: snouts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: snouting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: snouted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: snouted
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
pos: noun
examples: The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.
gloss: The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A person's nose.
pos: noun
tags: derogatory
examples: His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.
Whether his snout a perfect nose is,
And not an elephant's proboscis
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 the snout — Haw! — so.
gloss: The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
pos: noun
examples: If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
gloss: The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
pos: noun
gloss: The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
pos: noun
gloss: Tobacco; cigarettes.
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: (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.
LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us some snout. / MIKE. Five or ten?
Also he was "doing his nut" for some "snout." I said I would provide cigarettes.
Raymond rolled a neat cigarette. "What about some snout, then?" "No, thanks." He laughed. Smoke drifted from his open mouth.
gloss: The terminus of a glacier.
pos: noun
gloss: A police informer.
pos: noun
tags: slang
gloss: A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.
pos: noun
gloss: To furnish with a nozzle or point.
pos: verb
Derived words: American snout
elephant's snout volute
hog's snout
snoutane
snoutbean
snout beetle
snout butterfly
snouted
snout-fair
snoutful
snoutish
snoutless
snoutlike
snout moth
snouty
starsnout
swine's snout
tiger snout seahorse
tubesnout
Translations:
lang: Bashkir
word: морон
roman: moron
lang: Dutch
word: snuit
lang: Finnish
word: kärsä
lang: Hungarian
word: ormány
lang: Spanish
word: hocico
lang: Spanish
word: trompa
lang: Spanish
word: probóscide