snout

[ snout ]

/ snaʊt /

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noun

the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.

Entomology. an anterior prolongation of the head bearing the mouth parts, as in snout beetles.

anything that resembles or suggests an animal's snout in shape, function, etc.

a nozzle or spout.

a person's nose, especially when large or prominent.

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Origin of snout

1175–1225; Middle English snute; cognate with Dutch snuite, German Schnauze

Related formssnout·ed, adjectivesnout·less, adjectivesnout·like, adjectiveun·snout·ed, adjective

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Examples from the Web for snout

Head in front of the blow-hole high, and compressed anteriorly, the snout truncated.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7|Various
A narrow cream middorsal line extends from the snout to the vent.
A Synopsis of Neotropical Hylid Frogs, Genus Osteocephalus|Linda Trueb
Though his snout were flung on a branch they would remain together.
The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga|Various
He stepped in quickly and slammed two fast hard jabs into the point of the Nipe's snout, jarring the monster backward.
Anything You Can Do ...|Gordon Randall Garrett

The feet are five-toed, separate, not webbed like the moles; the snout is long and pointed and very mobile.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon|Robert A. Sterndale

British Dictionary definitions for snout

snout

/ (snaʊt) /

noun

the part of the head of a vertebrate, esp a mammal, consisting of the nose, jaws, and surrounding region, esp when elongated

the corresponding part of the head of such insects as weevils

anything projecting like a snout, such as a nozzle or the lower end of a glacier

slang a person's nose

Also called: snout moth a brownish noctuid moth, Hypena proboscidalis, that frequents nettles: named from the palps that project prominently from the head at rest

British slang a cigarette or tobacco

slang an informer

Derived Formssnouted, adjectivesnoutless, adjectivesnoutlike, adjective

Word Origin for snout

C13: of Germanic origin; compare Old Norse snyta, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch snūte

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Word Origin and History for snout

snout

early 13c., "trunk or projecting nose of an animal," from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch snute "snout," from Proto-Germanic *snut- (cf. German Schnauze, Norwegian snut, Danish snude "snout"), which Watkins traces to a hypothetical Germanic root *snu- forming words having to do with the nose, imitative of a sudden drawing of breath (cf. Old English gesnot "nasal mucus;" German schnauben "pant, puff, snort" (Austrian dialect), schnaufen "breathe heavily, pant," Schnupfen "cold in the head"). Of other animals and (contemptuously) of humans from c.1300.

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