snoots

Noun

snoot (plural snoots)

1. (informal) An elitist or snobbish person.
   • The sidecars— sneer if you will, you purists and gastronomic snoots— at Perino's in Wilshire in Los Angeles.1943, Lucius Morris Beebe, Snoot if You Must, D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, page 44

   Synonyms:

   snooty

2. A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism.
   • There are lots of epithets for people like this—Grammar Nazis, Usage Nerds, Syntax Snobs, the Language Police. The term I was raised with is SNOOT.2001 April, David Foster Wallace, “Tense Present: Democracy, English, and the Wars over Usage”, in Harper’s Magazine, volume 302, number April 2001, page 41
3. (derogatory, dialectal, slang) A nose or snout.
   • And then he did something which must be unprecedented in jurisprudence. He leaped from his chair, ran over to the old man, and shaking his fist under his nose, roared: 'Listen, you! If you keep on with this stuff, I'll punch you one in the snoot![1966], Friedrich Reck, translated by Paul Rubens, Diary of a Man in Despair, New York Review of Books, →ISBN, page 173

   Synonyms:

   nose

4. (Internet, childish, humorous) Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo"), cat ("catto"), or snake ("snek").
5. A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.
   • Snoots have traditionally been round in shape when attached to studio strobes, but with flash photography, they have taken on a more rectangular shape because the flash heads are rectangular.2014 December 26, Alyn Stafford, Flash Techniques for Location Portraiture: Single and Multiple-Flash Lighting Techniques, Amherst Media, →ISBN, page 36

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