snout
/snaʊt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.08 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
Example Sentences
- "The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout."
- "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."
- "His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout."
- "Whether his snout a perfect nose is, And not an elephant's proboscis"
- "The bitter laugh laughs at that which is not good, it is the ethical laugh. The hollow laugh laughs at that which is not true, it is the intellectual laugh. Not good! Not true! Well well. But the mirthless laugh is the dianoetic laugh, down the snout — Haw! — so."
- "If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much."
Etymology
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.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: snowte, snûte, *snūt, *snūtaz
Usage
- Derogatory
- British usage
- Slang
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.