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Definition of snout in English: snoutnoun snaʊtsnaʊt 1The projecting nose and mouth of an animal, especially a mammal. 动物（尤指哺乳动物突出的）的口鼻部 a sea lion balanced a ball on its snout Example sentencesExamples - Gino held the mask over the dog's snout and waited.
- All tapirs have a short, fleshy proboscis formed by the snout and upper lips.
- Crocodiles are lighter in color, with longer, narrower snouts.
- The fish shows other features characteristic of land animals, including ribs, a neck, and nostrils on its snout for breathing air.
- Once the snout contacted an ant larva or pupa, the snake would slide the ventral surface of its snout over the top of the prey until the prey item was positioned at or near the front of the mouth.
- Tiny, fragile claws poked through the hole, followed by a slender snout, nostrils flaring.
- The door creaked open and a furred snout poked out.
- She turned and saw the bay nudging his snout through the bars, eager for her strokes.
- They have long snouts, small eyes, large, clawed feet and long nearly naked tails.
- Their nostrils are located on top of their snouts and closed by valves.
- He covered the animal's snout with his mouth and puffed two breaths into her.
- Beneath the projecting snout there is a small, toothless mouth with thick, sucking lips.
- I used to say that all animals with snouts are cute, but I've had to adjust that view in light of seeing the Tasmanian Devil in person.
- They have pointy snouts, bulbous noses and grizzled manes.
- Unlike the common shrew, it has a fat, bulbous head and a short, narrow snout.
- The head is elongated and ends in a long, narrow snout, with nostrils that can be closed.
- Elephant shrews have elongated snouts and large eyes and ears.
- There were rodents, bats, elephants and lemurs with pointed snouts and long tails.
- They have a pointed snout, and the mouth contains teeth.
- From the tip of the snout to the end of its tail, it was no longer than a foot.
Synonyms muzzle, face nose, proboscis, trunk mouth, jaws, maw beak Scottish & Northern English neb - 1.1informal A person's nose.
〈贬〉（人的）鼻子 a guard with a pair of vicious piggy eyes above a snarling snout Example sentencesExamples - And the kitchen door opened and May stuck her snout into the room again.
- But we should not be sticking our snout in there.
- After trailing the champions throughout, it seemed that all Cork needed was to get their snouts in front, but after drawing up alongside their opponents as the game swung in to the final five minutes Cork couldn't eke out a lead.
- 1.2 The projecting front or end of something such as a pistol.
（手枪等物品的）凸端 he was stopped by the snout of her pistol Example sentencesExamples - This area can also be taken up by the bus's snout, leaving the cyclist little option but form a ‘snake’ alongside.
- Kathleen stared at the pistol, which he held, that had a cloud of smoke whispering from its snout, then she averted her eyes to the fallen officer.
- The crew works until 9 p.m. and all day Saturday repairing the front snout, rear clip and right flame rails.
2British informal A cigarette. 〈英，非正式〉香烟 - 2.1mass noun Tobacco.
烟草
3British informal A police informer. 〈英，非正式〉警方线人 his arrest had been the work of some anonymous snout Example sentencesExamples - Most believe that, as a police snout, he set them up for lengthy jail sentences.
- Apparently, a third of calls to the cheatline relate to household insurance, with snouts telling tales about burglaries that never happened or fires started by ‘accident’.
- The opprobrium that once attached to informers, snitches, snouts, shoppers and narks in all walks of life no longer exists.
4A European moth with long palps that extend in front of the head like a snout. 长吻夜蛾，螟蛾，鼻蛾 Hypsena and other genera, family Noctuidae, in particular the snout (H. proboscidalis) Example sentencesExamples - Pyralid, snout or grass moths (Pyralidae) make up a very large family of more than 25,000 species.
Derivativesadjective often in combination long-snouted baboons Example sentencesExamples - They are still small short legged and long snouted.
- Aardvarks have a superficial resemblance to a long snouted pig.
- Well, I for one was not going to pass up the opportunity to explore and indeed research the most fascinating facts I could find about this pointy snouted insect snorting cutey.
- Long snouted raccoons tamely hang out among the crowd.
- The very large bear growled at this and Cole led the horse a bit away from the snouted animal with its short tail and round ears.
adjective What he demands is an education that ‘makes] [him] a sharp, snouty, rooting hog.’ Example sentencesExamples - Its snouty head, patchy grey body and small pedal fins make the dwarf look more like a large dolphin than a baleen whale.
- Beast, 2005, a snouty, projecting recent wall-piece, was among the most sculptural works on view, with the laboriously reconfigured branches completely subsumed by a singular, arresting form.
OriginMiddle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German snūt; related to snot. Think how many words to do with noses begin with the letters sn-. Most are medieval. There is snout, which in early use could describe not only the projecting part of an animal's face but also an elephant's trunk, and a bird's beak. A variant of snout was snoot (mid 19th century), which is where snooty (early 20th century) comes from—snooty people have their noses stuck in the air. Snot (Late Middle English) and snotty (late 16th century) are also based on snout. Snuff (early 16th century) used to mean ‘to inhale through the nostrils’ before it became a term for powdered tobacco that you inhale through your nostrils. Snuffle (late 16th century) is related. Snivel (Middle English) originally referred to mucus. Snore (Middle English) and snort (Late Middle English) once had each other's meanings—snore meant ‘a snort’ and snort meant ‘to snore’, and both probably imitated the sound.
Rhymesabout, bout, clout, devout, doubt, down-and-out, drought, flout, gout, grout, knout, lout, mahout, misdoubt, nowt, out, out-and-out, owt, pout, Prout, right about, rout, scout, shout, spout, sprout, stout, thereabout, thereout, throughout, timeout, tout, trout, way-out, without Definition of snout in US English: snoutnounsnaʊtsnout 1The projecting nose and mouth of an animal, especially a mammal. 动物（尤指哺乳动物突出的）的口鼻部 Example sentencesExamples - He covered the animal's snout with his mouth and puffed two breaths into her.
- Tiny, fragile claws poked through the hole, followed by a slender snout, nostrils flaring.
- All tapirs have a short, fleshy proboscis formed by the snout and upper lips.
- Beneath the projecting snout there is a small, toothless mouth with thick, sucking lips.
- Their nostrils are located on top of their snouts and closed by valves.
- They have pointy snouts, bulbous noses and grizzled manes.
- The head is elongated and ends in a long, narrow snout, with nostrils that can be closed.
- Unlike the common shrew, it has a fat, bulbous head and a short, narrow snout.
- The fish shows other features characteristic of land animals, including ribs, a neck, and nostrils on its snout for breathing air.
- She turned and saw the bay nudging his snout through the bars, eager for her strokes.
- Gino held the mask over the dog's snout and waited.
- They have long snouts, small eyes, large, clawed feet and long nearly naked tails.
- Crocodiles are lighter in color, with longer, narrower snouts.
- There were rodents, bats, elephants and lemurs with pointed snouts and long tails.
- I used to say that all animals with snouts are cute, but I've had to adjust that view in light of seeing the Tasmanian Devil in person.
- Once the snout contacted an ant larva or pupa, the snake would slide the ventral surface of its snout over the top of the prey until the prey item was positioned at or near the front of the mouth.
- They have a pointed snout, and the mouth contains teeth.
- The door creaked open and a furred snout poked out.
- Elephant shrews have elongated snouts and large eyes and ears.
- From the tip of the snout to the end of its tail, it was no longer than a foot.
- 1.1informal A person's nose.
〈贬〉（人的）鼻子 Example sentencesExamples - But we should not be sticking our snout in there.
- And the kitchen door opened and May stuck her snout into the room again.
- After trailing the champions throughout, it seemed that all Cork needed was to get their snouts in front, but after drawing up alongside their opponents as the game swung in to the final five minutes Cork couldn't eke out a lead.
- 1.2 The projecting front or end of something such as a pistol.
（手枪等物品的）凸端 Example sentencesExamples - The crew works until 9 p.m. and all day Saturday repairing the front snout, rear clip and right flame rails.
- This area can also be taken up by the bus's snout, leaving the cyclist little option but form a ‘snake’ alongside.
- Kathleen stared at the pistol, which he held, that had a cloud of smoke whispering from its snout, then she averted her eyes to the fallen officer.
2British informal A cigarette. 〈英，非正式〉香烟 - 2.1 Tobacco.
烟草
3British informal A police informer. 〈英，非正式〉警方线人 Example sentencesExamples - Apparently, a third of calls to the cheatline relate to household insurance, with snouts telling tales about burglaries that never happened or fires started by ‘accident’.
- The opprobrium that once attached to informers, snitches, snouts, shoppers and narks in all walks of life no longer exists.
- Most believe that, as a police snout, he set them up for lengthy jail sentences.
OriginMiddle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German snūt; related to snot. |