different between snout vs rootle

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)

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. [First attested in 1387.]
3. (derogatory) 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.
8. (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.

9. The terminus of a glacier.
10. (slang) A police informer.
11. 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)

1. 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

1. Alternative form of snowte

English

Etymology

Frequentative root +? -le.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??u?t?l/

Verb

rootle (third-person singular simple present rootles, present participle rootling, simple past and past participle rootled)

1. (of an animal) to dig into the ground, with the snout.
   • 1929, Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, Penguin Books, paperback edition, page 11

     Once, presumably, this quadrangle with its smooth lawns, its massive buildings, and the chapel itself was marsh too, where the grasses waved and the swine rootled.

2. (of a person) to search for something from a drawer, closet, etc.; to dig out.

Anagrams

• looter, oolert, retool, tooler