muzzle

noun · verbA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

muzzles

1.
The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
Đồng nghĩa: snout
2.
(broadly, derogatory, slang)(slang, derogatory, by extension) A person's mouth.
3.
A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
4.
(firearms) The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
5.
(Scotland)(chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
Đồng nghĩa: bridle
6.
(historical, obsolete)An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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verb

V_es/s

muzzles

V_ing/Gerund

muzzling

V_ed/pp

muzzled

1.
(transitive)To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
Đồng nghĩa: bemuzzle
2.
(figuratively, transitive)To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.
Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.
3.
(obsolete, transitive)To veil, mask, muffle.
4.
(obsolete, transitive)To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
5.
(intransitive)To bring the muzzle or mouth near.

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Đồng nghĩa

snout bridlebemuzzle

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Nguồn gốc từ

From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern museau), from mūsus (snout), probably of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by mūgīre. museau. Displaced native kevel from cæfl, see cavel.