schnoz

[ shnoz ]
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nounSlang.
  1. a nose, especially one of unusually large size.

Origin of schnoz

1
1935–40, Americanism; probably expressive alteration of nose, nozzle; schn- by association with any of several semantically related Yiddish words, e.g. shnabl beak, shnoytssnout, shnuk beak, trunk; for suffix of schnozzolasee -ola
  • Also schnozz, schnoz·zle [shnoz-uhl], /ˈʃnɒz əl/, schnoz·zo·la [schno-zoh-luh] /stʃnɒˈzoʊ lə/

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