English Explanatory Dictionary

snout

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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. 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. Tobacco; cigarettes.
  8. The terminus of a glacier.
  9. A police informer.
  10. A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.
verb
  1. To furnish with a nozzle or point.

Pronunciation

/snaʊt/ /snʌʊt/ en-us-snout.ogg

Word forms

snout snouts snouting snouted

Etymology

From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English *snūt, *snūte or Middle Low German snûte, from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute (“snout”), West Frisian snút (“snout”), Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Low German Snuut (“snout”), German Schnauze, Schnute (“snout”). Doublet of snoot.

Derived words

American snout elephant's snout volute hog's snout snoutane snoutbean snout beetle snout butterfly snouted snout-fair snoutful snoutish snoutless snoutlike snout moth snouty starsnout swine's snout tiger snout seahorse tubesnout

Translations

Bashkir: морон Dutch: snuit Finnish: kärsä Hungarian: ormány Spanish: hocico Spanish: trompa Spanish: probóscide
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