snout

Meanings

Noun

• The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
• The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
• 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.
• Tobacco; cigarettes.
• The terminus of a glacier.
• A police informer.
• A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae (subfamily), notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.

Verb

• To furnish with a nozzle or point.

Origin

• From Middle English snowte, snoute, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German snute (alternatively spelled snuut, snuyt), from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz.
• Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute, Dutch snuit or snoet, German Schnauze, Schnute. snoot.