snout

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/ 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

OTHER WORDS FROM snout

snouted, adjectivesnoutless, adjectivesnoutlike, adjectiveun·snout·ed, adjective

Words nearby snout

snot, snotnosed, snot-rag, snotter, snotty, snout, snout beetle, snow, snow apple, snowball, snowball bush

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How to use snout in a sentence

As the animal clung to the rocky bottom, it exhaled an air bubble on its snout and appeared to repeatedly suck the air in and out of the bubble.
How some lizards breathe underwater|Sharon Oosthoek|July 27, 2021|Science News
It has a slender tapering snout and a large number of teeth.
Ancient creature revealed as lizard, not a teeny dinosaur|Carolyn Gramling|July 21, 2021|Science News For Students
The lizard exhaled an air bubble around its snout as the animal clung to the rocky bottom.
A bubble of air lets some lizards breathe underwater|Sharon Oosthoek|July 14, 2021|Science News For Students
While underwater, all of these lizards carried a bubble of air around their snouts.
A bubble of air lets some lizards breathe underwater|Sharon Oosthoek|July 14, 2021|Science News For Students

To get to the sugar cube, the mice just had to poke in their snouts and lick.
User experience is the difference between mediocre and next-level search marketing|Carolyn Lyden|June 16, 2021|Search Engine Land
As his grizzled snout suggests, Orlando is 11 years old, which translates to 77 in dog years.
Strangers Rally to Help Blind Man Keep His Guide Dog|Michael Daly|December 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Had the automatic snout poking through the steel grille of the rear of the cage.
Hooded Detective, Volume III No. 2, January, 1942|Various
Despite the speed of his dive, they were gaining on him, coming up fast; one snout that ended in a cupped depression was plain.
Astounding Stories, May, 1931|Various
With a roast apple in his snout, and a ribbon—a blue—no, a pink ribbon decorating his ornery little tail.
The Woman Gives|Owen Johnson
He walks on all fours, and his length, from the snout to the origin of his tail, is about a foot and a half.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
As I was dipping my tin mug into the lake, a huge snout suddenly rose, and very nearly caught my hand, as well as the mug.
In the Wilds of Florida|W.H.G. Kingston

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 forms of snout

snouted, 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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