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snout

(snout)

a. The projecting nose, jaws, or anterior facial part of an animal's head.

b. A similar prolongation of the anterior portion of the head in certain insects, such as weevils; a rostrum.

c. A spout or nozzle shaped like such a projection.

2. Slang The human nose.

[Middle English, probably of Old English origin.]

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snout

(snaʊt)

1. (Zoology) the part of the head of a vertebrate, esp a mammal, consisting of the nose, jaws, and surrounding region, esp when elongated

2. (Zoology) the corresponding part of the head of such insects as weevils

3. anything projecting like a snout, such as a nozzle or the lower end of a glacier

4. (Anatomy) slang a person's nose

5. (Animals) Also called: snout moth a brownish noctuid moth, Hypena proboscidalis, that frequents nettles: named from the palps that project prominently from the head at rest

6. (Brewing) slang Brit a cigarette or tobacco

7. slang an informer

[C13: of Germanic origin; compare Old Norse snyta, Middle Low German, Middle Dutch snūte]

ˈsnouted adj

ˈsnoutless adj

ˈsnoutˌlike adj

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snout

(snaʊt)

n.

1. the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.

2. anything that resembles or suggests an animal's snout in shape, function, etc.

3. a nozzle or spout.

4. a person's nose, esp. when large or prominent.

[1175–1225; Middle English snowte, earlier snute, akin to Middle Low German, Middle Dutch snūte]

snout

(snout)

The projecting nose, jaws, or front part of the head of an animal.

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Noun	1.	snout - a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose neb muzzle - forward projecting part of the head of certain animals; includes the jaws and nose proboscis, trunk - a long flexible snout as of an elephant nose, olfactory organ - the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals; "he has a cold in the nose"
	2.	snout - informal terms for the nose hooter, schnoz, schnozzle, snoot, nozzle, honker, beak nose, olfactory organ - the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals; "he has a cold in the nose" U.S.A., United States, United States of America, US, USA, America, the States, U.S. - North American republic containing 50 states - 48 conterminous states in North America plus Alaska in northwest North America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific Ocean; achieved independence in 1776
	3.	snout - beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils rostrum nose, olfactory organ - the organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals; "he has a cold in the nose"

snout

noun proboscis, nose, jaws, trunk, beak, mouth, muzzle Two alligators rest their snouts on the water's surface.

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snout

noun

Slang. The structure on the human face that contains the nostrils and organs of smell and forms the beginning of the respiratory tract:

nose, proboscis.

Informal: beak, snoot.

Slang: nozzle, schnoz, schnozzle.

Translations

فِنْطيسَة الخِنْزير

rypák

tryne

Schnauze Rüssel

hocico

kärsäklyyvarinokkapääsuu

museau pif trompe groin

trÿni, snoppa, snjáldur

snuķis

rypák

snout

[snaʊt] N

1. (= nose) [of animal] → hocico m, morro m [of person] → napias fpl

2. (= tobacco) → tabaco m, cigarrillos mpl

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

snout

[ˈsnaʊt] n → museau m

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snout

(of animal) → Schnauze f; (of pig also, of insect) → Rüssel m; (inf, of person) → Rüssel m (inf), → Zinken m (inf)

(sl: = informer) → Spitzel m

(Brit, inf, = tobacco) → Knaster m (inf)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

snout

[snaʊt] n (of animal) → muso; (of pig) → grugno

snout

(snaut) noun

the projecting mouth and nose part of certain animals, especially of a pig.

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The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could.

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But like the snout of the boar shall my word grub up the basis of your souls; a ploughshare will I be called by you.

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With an angry lash of her tail she bared her yellow fangs, curling her great lips in a hideous snarl that wrinkled her bristling snout in serried ridges and closed her wicked eyes to two narrow slits of rage and hatred.

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And then about him coiled the great, slimy folds of a hideous monster of that prehistoric deep--a mighty serpent of the sea, with fanged jaws, and darting forked tongue, with bulging eyes, and bony protuberances upon head and snout that formed short, stout horns.

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There was one small countess, with an iron ring in her snout and hardly any hair on her back, that was the devil for perversity.

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My hopes began to rise a little, but they were quickly blighted; for there I met a hog--a long-nosed, bristly fellow, that held up his snout and worked his nostrils at me inquiringly.

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There could be no doubt that it had a VERY turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the thing at all.

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It towered ten feet at the shoulder; had four legs on either side; a broad flat tail, larger at the tip than at the root, and which it held straight out behind while running; a gaping mouth which split its head from its snout to its long, massive neck.

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He would then root furiously under the cocoanut, and, with a fling of his snout, toss it before him on the ground.

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Take this and this!' and I hit him so pat, stwaight on his snout...

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