snout

IPA: snˈaʊt

noun

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

verb

  • To furnish with a nozzle or point.
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Examples of "snout" in Sentences

  • The front of the snout is missing.
  • The profile of the snout is blunt.
  • The eye is shorter than the snout.
  • The granules enlarged on the snout.
  • The tip of the snout is moderately elevated.
  • Cut the nostrils of a pig to weaken the snout.
  • The head is not that wide and the snout is blunt.
  • Head granular, the granules enlarged on the snout.
  • The body is relatively stout and the snout is not upturned.
  • The bluntly pointed snout projects distinctly beyond the lower jaw.
  • It must be difficult to notice the odd £100,000 or so missing when your snout is buried so deeply in the trough.
  • Like pigs, peccaries use a specialised rhinarial disk for rooting in soil and their snout is specialised for this behaviour.
  • With the musculature of these swine, an upward thrust of the snout is impressive with the "cutters" turned slightly outward, the results are most impressive!
  • So can prison officers and staff - because the government are scared of violent reactions from people supposedly in the power of the State if 'snout' is taken away.
  • First described for a partial snout from the Brazilian Santana Formation, Tupuxuara longicristatus Kellner & Campos, 1988 is a toothless Cretaceous pterosaur with a rather long, subtriangular skull.
  • Know then, that I have had a Barbet brought me from France, so exactly like the Sultan that he has been mistaken for him several times; only his snout is shorter, and his ears longer than the Sultan's.
  • The narrow, pointed snout is better for getting the nostrils into small puddles and other bodies, and the vertical ridge at the front of the olfactory chamber seems to anchor a soft-tissue valve that prevents water from being snarfed deep into the olfactory chamber (as would happen with any normal tortoise, were it to try drinking like this).

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