snout

Meaning

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. (slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.
8. The terminus of a glacier.
9. (slang) A police informer.
10. A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/snaʊt/

Inherited from Middle English

Cognate with Saterland Frisian

Cognate with Dutch

Cognate with German

In summary

From Middle English snowte, snoute, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German snute (alternatively spelled snuut, snuyt), from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute, Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Schnauze, Schnute. Doublet of snoot.

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