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snout
/snaʊt/
noun 5verb 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
blunt, narrow, prominent, short, wide
VERB + SNOUT
claws, gate, like, look, meaning, shape, snap
SNOUT + NOUN
boxers, rostrum, tale's
PREP.
in, onto, with, with
ADV.
upwards
Definitions
noun
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.
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
A person's nose.
His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.
Whether his snout a perfect nose is, And not an elephant's proboscis
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.
verb
1
To furnish with a nozzle or point.
Thesaurus
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.
Wiktionary02
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
Wiktionary03
His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.
Wiktionary04
Snip, snap, snout, this tale's told out.
Tatoeba · #124124905
The hedgehog's snout stretched upwards in curiosity.
Tatoeba · #277652306
I like the short snout of boxers.
Tatoeba · #3273304Usage Notes
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