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snout
English
Etymology
From Middle English snowte, snoute, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German snute (alternatively spelled snuut, snuyt), lastly from Proto-Germanic *sn?taz, but further origin unknown. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute, Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Schnauze, Schnute. Doublet of snoot.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sna?t/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /sn??t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Noun
snout (plural snouts)
- The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
- The front of the prow of a ship or boat. [First attested in 1387.]
- (derogatory) A person's nose.
- The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
- (Britain, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.
- 1967, Len Deighton, Only When I Larf
- (Bob, p. 55:) Charlie was the most vicious screw on the block ... He caught me with the two ounces of snout right in my hand, caught me by the hair, and swung me round in the exercise yard ...
- (Spider, p. 175:) She brings me snout and sweets, and sometimes a cake from Mum.
- 1982, Edward Bond, Saved
- LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us some snout. / MIKE. Five or ten?
- 2000, Joe Randolph Ackerley, P N Furbank, We Think the World of You
- Also he was "doing his nut" for some "snout." I said I would provide cigarettes.
- 2004, Allan Sillitoe, New and Collected Stories
- Raymond rolled a neat cigarette. "What about some snout, then?" "No, thanks." He laughed. Smoke drifted from his open mouth.
- 1967, Len Deighton, Only When I Larf
- The terminus of a glacier.
- (slang) A police informer.
- A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.
Translations
Verb
snout (third-person singular simple present snouts, present participle snouting, simple past and past participle snouted)
- To furnish with a nozzle or point.
Further reading
- snout (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
References
Anagrams
- Notus, Tuson, noust, nouts, nutso, tonus
Middle English
Noun
snout
- Alternative form of snowte
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boarfish
English
Etymology
boar +? fish
Noun
boarfish (plural boarfishes or boarfish)
- Any of a number of fish that have a projecting snout, in either of two families:
- The Caproidae
- The Pentacerotidae
Alternative forms
- boar-fish
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