snout

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Etymology

Of Germanic origin; probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch snute. Compare Dutch snuit, German Schnauze.

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -aʊt

Noun

snout (plural snouts)

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

   The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout

2. The nose of a man, (in contempt).

   His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.

3. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

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

4. The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
5. The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
6. (UK, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.
   • 1967, Len Deighton, Only When I Laugh

     (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.

Translations

long, projecting nose, mouth and jaw of a beast

• Asturian: focicu (ast) m
• Catalan: musell (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 口吻 (cmn) (kǒuwěn)

• Czech: čumák (cs) m, rypák (cs) m
• Danish: tryne (da) c
• Dutch: snuit (nl) m
• Esperanto: muzelo (eo) m
• Finnish: kuono, kärsä (pig), turpa (horse)
• French: museau (fr) m
• German: Schnauze (de) f, Hundeschnauze (de) f, Rüssel (de) m, Schweinerüssel (de) m
• Greek: ρύγχος (el) (rýnchos) n
• Hebrew: חוטם (he) (khótem) m
• Icelandic: trýni (is) n
• Italian: grugno (it) m
• Japanese: 鼻面 (ja) (はなづら, hanazura)
• Lithuanian: snukis (lt) m

• Low German: Snuut (nds) f
• Norwegian: tryne (no) n
• Polish: ryj (pl) m
• Portuguese: focinho (pt) m
• Russian: морда (ru) (mórda) f, рыло (ru) (rýlo) n
• Scottish Gaelic: sròn (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: њушка (sh) f

  Roman: njuška (sh) f

• Spanish: hocico (es) m
• Swedish: tryne (sv) n, nos (sv) c
• Telugu: ముట్టె (te)
• Volapük: snud (vo), probodül (vo), svinaprobodül (vo)
• Welsh: trwyn (cy) m
• Yiddish: שנויץ (yi) (shnoyts, schnojz) f
• Zulu: impumulo (zu) 9/10

nose of a man, (in contempt)

• Catalan: nas (ca) m
• Dutch: snuit (nl) m, snoet (nl) m
• Finnish: nokka (fi), klyyvari (fi)
• Hebrew: חוטם (he) (khótem) m
• Polish: ryj (pl) m

• Portuguese: focinho (pt) m
• Russian: шнобель (ru) (šnóbelʹ) n, рубильник (ru) (rubílʹnik) m, рыло (ru) (rýlo) n
• Spanish: (Mexico) narizota (es) f, narices (es) f pl

nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

• Finnish: suu (fi), pää (fi)
• Hebrew: פיה (he) (piyá) f

• Russian: сопло (ru) (sóplo) n
• Spanish: boquilla (es) f

anterior prolongation of head of weevil and other insects

• Dutch: snuit (nl) m
• Finnish: kärsä (fi)

• Spanish: hocico (es) m, trompa (es) f, (technical) probóscide (es) f

anterior prolongation of the head of gastropod

• Finnish: kärsä (fi)

• Spanish: hocico (es) m, trompa (es) f, (technical) probóscide (es) f

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.

Anagrams

• nutso