Snout

/snaʊt/ · noun

Meaning

The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs..

Definitions by Sense

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. (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.
7. (British, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.
8. The terminus of a glacier.

Example Sentences

The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.

The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.

His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.

Whether his snout a perfect nose is, And not an elephant's proboscis

The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.

If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.

(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.

LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us some snout. / MIKE. Five or ten?

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• snouts
• snouting
• snouted

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