snout

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

snouts

1.
The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.
2.
The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
3.
(derogatory)A person's nose.
His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.
4.
The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
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.

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verb

V_es/s

snouts

V_ing/Gerund

snouting

V_ed/pp

snouted

1.
To furnish with a nozzle or point.

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Nguồn gốc từ

osx From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English *snūt, *snūte or snûte, from *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz.