snout

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

   The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.

2. 2
   noun

   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.

3. 3
   noun

   A person's nose.

   His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.

4. 4
   noun

   The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

   If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.

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.

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