snout
English
/snaʊt/, /snʌʊt/
noun
Definitions
- The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
- The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
- (derogatory) A person's nose.
- The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
- (British) Tobacco; cigarettes.
- The terminus of a glacier.
- (slang) A police informer.
- A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily , notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English snowte inherited from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*snūtaz
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bean English
- schnauzer English
- snoot English
- snoutbean English
- snoutish English
- snoutless English
- snoutlike English
- snouty English
- star English
- starsnout English
- Schnauze German
- kaltschnäuzig German
- schnauzen German
- snuit Dutch, Flemish
- snuitkever Dutch, Flemish
- spitssnuitdolfijn Dutch, Flemish
- witsnuitlibel Dutch, Flemish
- schnauzer Spanish, Castilian
- *snūtaz Proto-Germanic
- snowte Middle English
- snute Middle Dutch
- snuut Middle Dutch
- שנויץ Yiddish
- *snūt Old Dutch
- snute Middle Low German
- snûte Middle Low German
- snoot Scots