snout

Meaning

Noun

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. (derogatory) 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. (British, 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.

Verb

To furnish with a nozzle or point.

Synonyms

muzzle

beak

nose

👃

trunk

nozzle

proboscis

neb

rostrum

schnoz

snoot

schnozzle

mouth

bill

hooter

face

lips

👄

nostril

honker

stigma

upper lip

yap

tobacco

nasal passage

chub

mouthpart

gob

groin

jowl

lip

loin

mug

chin

nares

nasal cavity

nib

nostrils

point

prow

rebuff

spout

Translations

hocico

museau

Schnauze

muso

snuit

focinho

groin

Rüssel

grugno

pif

trompa

ceffo

musell

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/snaʊt/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: snowte

Cognate with Saterland Frisian: Snuute

Cognate with Dutch: snuit

Cognate with German: Schnauze

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.