snout

Definitions


[snaʊt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- the projecting nose and mouth of an animal, especially a mammal
(e.g: a sea lion balanced a ball on its snout)

- a cigarette

- a police informer
(e.g: his arrest had been the work of some anonymous snout)

- a European moth with long palps that extend in front of the head like a snout


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German snūt; related to snot




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