snout
/snaʊt/
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Canada/snʌʊt/
snout noun: the long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
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Noun
snout (plural snouts)
- The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
- The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.
- The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
- The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5
- A person's nose.
- His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.
- Whether his snout a perfect nose is,
And not an elephant's proboscis1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished...
- The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
- If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
- Tobacco; cigarettes.
- (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.1967, Len Deighton, Only When I Larf
- The terminus of a glacier.
- A police informer.
- A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.
Verb
snout (third-person singular simple present snouts, present participle snouting, simple past and past participle snouted)
- To furnish with a nozzle or point.
snout meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
snout in Hindi
- long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
- थूथन thūthan
snout in Tamil
- கோணம், ஆமை, பன்றி போன்றவற்றின் நீள்மூக்குப்பகுதி, முகரை
snout in Bengali
- পশুর নাক, মুখমণ্ডল
snout in Telugu
- long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
- ముట్టె muṭṭe
More languagesFewer languages
- snout in Malayalam
- മോന്ത, മൃഗമോന്ത, മൃഗത്തി നീണ്ട മൂക്ക്, മൃഗത്തി മൂക്കും വായും ചേർന്നത്
- snout in Kannada
- ಮೂಗು, ಮೂತಿ, ಮುಸುಡಿ, ಚುಂಚು
- snout in Arabic
- خَطْم ḵaṭm
- snout in Indonesian
- jungur, moncong
- snout in Persian
- پوزه puze, نس nos, پوز puz
- snout in Thai
- พวย puai
- snout in Vietnamese
- mõm
Examples of snout in a sentence
- But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC:
- Also he was "doing his nut" for some "snout." I said I would provide cigarettes.2000, Joe Randolph Ackerley, P N Furbank, We Think the World of You:
- "What about some snout, then?" "No, thanks." He laughed.2004, Allan Sillitoe, New and Collected Stories:
Forms of snout
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | snouts |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | snouts |
| present participle | snouting |
| past participle | snouted |
| past | snouted |
Origin of snout
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.
Words formed from snout
Phrases with snout
Words that rhyme with snout
42 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- shout
- sprout
- doubt
- umlaut
- fill out
- grout
- pout
- devout
- drought
- gout
- nowt
- redoubt
- throughout
- without
- ablaut
- dout
- flout
- lout
- mahout
- misdoubt
- mought
- prone out
- strout
- term out
- trout
- zoom out
- 'bout
- anlaut
- aspout
- asprout
- bluff out
- chout
- dought
- knout
- kraut
- layabout
- ne'er cast a clout till May be out
- owt
- peter out
- regrout
- sout
- when in doubt, do nowt
Questions about snout
- What does snout mean?
- Snout means the long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
- What is snout in Hindi?
- Snout in Hindi is थूथन (thūthan). See Snout meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use snout in a sentence?
- But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so.
- What part of speech is snout?
- Snout can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce snout?
- Snout is pronounced /snaʊt/.
- What is the plural of snout?
- The plural of snout is snouts.
Words near snout in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: snout (page history and authors); snout (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snout (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); snout (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); snout (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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