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snout

Pronunciation: /snaʊt/

The English word “snout” has 11 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
  2. The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
  3. A person's nose.
  4. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
  5. The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
  6. The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
  7. Tobacco; cigarettes.
  8. The terminus of a glacier.
  9. A police informer.
  10. A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.

verb

  1. To furnish with a nozzle or point.

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.

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