different between snootful vs snoot

English

Etymology

snoot +? -ful

Pronunciation

• IPA: /?snu?tf?l/

Noun

snootful (plural snootfuls)

1. (informal) A noseful.
   • 1996, Gary Ferguson, The Yellowstone Wolves: The First Year :

     Suddenly the Soda Butte animals are getting great snootfuls of scent laid down over the past month by other wolves, which apparently leaves them with a certain longing for their own quiet, unsullied digs far to the northeast...
2. (informal) A significant ingested quantity of an alcoholic beverage.
   • 1922, P. G. Wodehouse, Right Ho, Jeeves, ch. 13:

     Only active measures, promptly applied, can provide this poor, pusillanimous poop with the proper pep. And that is why, Jeeves, I intend tomorrow to secure a bottle of gin and lace his luncheon orange juice with it liberally. . . . The truth of the matter being that he is just a plain, ordinary poop and needs a snootful as badly as ever man did.

   • 1963 Nov. 1, "Cartoonists: E's Luv'ly," Time:

     His bulbous nose glows whenever he has a snootful, which is nearly every night.

   • 1987 May 22, John Gross, "Books of the Times" (review of The Paris Edition by Waverley Root), New York Times (retrieved 1 Nov 2011):

     [H]e recalls most of his colleagues and their rough-and-tumble exploits. Spencer Bull, for instance, who was a good reporter with one weakness . . . "He lost the ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy when he had a snootful."

Derived terms

• have a snootful

Translations

English

Etymology

From Scots snoot, snout (“snout”), from Middle English snowte, from Middle Dutch snute; ultimately from Proto-Germanic *sn?taz. Doublet of snout.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snu?t/

Noun

snoot (plural snoots)

1. (informal) An elitist individual; one who looks down upon lower social classes.
2. A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (dialectal or slang) A nose or snout, especially in derogatory use.
4. (Internet slang, childish, humorous) Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo") or snake ("snek").
5. (theater, photography) A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.

Verb

snoot (third-person singular simple present snoots, present participle snooting, simple past and past participle snooted)

1. To behave disdainfully toward.

Synonyms

• (nose): See Thesaurus:nose

Derived terms

• droop snoot

Related terms

• snootful
• snooty

Translations

Anagrams

• ONTOS, Ontos, Soton, oonts, tonos, toons

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

snoot

1. singular past indicative of snuiten

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English snowte. Cognate with English snout.

Noun

snoot (plural snoots)

1. (anatomy) snout, face, head
2. (geography) a projecting point of land
3. peak of a cap
4. (slang) detective, policeman

Derived terms

• snoot-cloot