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Synonyms for snout

Grammar : Noun
Spell : snout
Phonetic Transcription : snaÊŠt

Définition of snout

Origin :
  • early 13c., "trunk or projecting nose of an animal," from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch snute "snout," from Proto-Germanic *snut- (cf. German Schnauze, Norwegian snut, Danish snude "snout"), which Watkins traces to a hypothetical Germanic root *snu- forming words having to do with the nose, imitative of a sudden drawing of breath (cf. Old English gesnot "nasal mucus;" German schnauben "pant, puff, snort" (Austrian dialect), schnaufen "breathe heavily, pant," Schnupfen "cold in the head"). Of other animals and (contemptuously) of humans from c.1300.
  • noun nose
Example sentences :
  • They noticed a great gaping wound as if done by a sword-cut on his snout.
  • Extract from : « Japanese Fairy World » by William Elliot Griffis
  • Protected by no bony structure the snout of the monster was amputated.
  • Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science April 1930 » by Various
  • They only allow the end of the snout, or at most the head, to appear.
  • Extract from : « The Industries of Animals » by Frdric Houssay
  • He had his snout thrust out, and was "sniffing" at a great rate.
  • Extract from : « Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys » by Silas K. Boone
  • Pterygium: a lateral expansion of the snout of some Coleoptera.
  • Extract from : « Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology » by John. B. Smith
  • It has a small head, the snout sharpened and bent slightly downwards.
  • Extract from : « The Western World » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • One man, a butcher, was pulling on a rope which was tied around a porker's snout.
  • Extract from : « The Silver Lining » by John Roussel
  • With the breeze biting her weather bow, I'll hold her snout into it.
  • Extract from : « The Wind Bloweth » by Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
  • The nostrils are on the upper part of the snout, through which it blows like a whale.
  • Extract from : « Peter the Whaler » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • The peccary, having its snout tied up, was unable to squeak.
  • Extract from : « On the Banks of the Amazon » by W.H.G. Kingston

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