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snout

noun · verb · 14 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • /snaʊt/
  • Canada: /snʌʊt/
  • US: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • rhymes with -aʊt
  • CMU ARPABET: S N AW1 T Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The front of the prow of a ship or boat.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A person's nose.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: derogatory

Examples

  • His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Tobacco; cigarettes.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

The terminus of a glacier.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

A police informer.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: slang

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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11

verb

Meaning 11

To furnish with a nozzle or point.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

a long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: neb

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: nose, olfactory organ

Narrower terms: proboscis, trunk

13

noun

Meaning 13

beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: rostrum

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: nose, olfactory organ

14

noun

Meaning 14

informal terms for the nose

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: beak, honker, hooter, nozzle, snoot, schnozzle, schnoz

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: nose, olfactory organ

History

Etymology

From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English *snūt, *snūte or Middle Low German snûte, from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute (“snout”), West Frisian snút (“snout”), Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Low German Snuut (“snout”), German Schnauze, Schnute (“snout”). Doublet of snoot.

Across languages

Translations

147 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: خَطْم (ḵaṭm) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Arabic: بوز (būz) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Arabic: إبواز (ebwāz) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Armenian: մռութ (mṙutʻ) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Armenian: դունչ (dunčʻ) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Armenian: կնճիթ (knčitʻ) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Asturian: focicu — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Asturian: morru — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Bashkir: морон (moron) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Basque: mutur — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Belarusian: мо́рда (mórda) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Belarusian: мы́са (mýsa) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Belarusian: ры́ла (rýla) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Central Bikol: ngudoy — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Bulgarian: муцуна (mucuna) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Bulgarian: ри́ло (rílo) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Catalan: musell — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Catalan: morro — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Chichewa: njidi — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Chichewa: chanana — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Chinese Mandarin: 口吻 (kǒuwěn) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Czech: čumák — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Czech: rypák — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Danish: tryne — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Danish: snude — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Dutch: snuit — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Esperanto: muzelo — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Esperanto: rostro — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Estonian: koon — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Estonian: kärss — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Finnish: kuono — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Finnish: turpa (herbivores) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Finnish: kärsä — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • French: museau — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • French: groin — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Galician: fociño — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Galician: morro — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Georgian: დინგი (dingi) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • German: Schnauze — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • German: Hundeschnauze — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • German: Rüssel — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • German: Schweinerüssel — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Greek: ρύγχος (rýnchos) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Ancient Greek: ῥύγχος (rhúnkhos) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Hebrew: חוטם (khótem) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Hindi: थूथन (thūthan) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Hungarian: pofa — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Icelandic: trýni — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Icelandic: snjáldur — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Indonesian: jungur — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Indonesian: moncong — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Ingrian: morda — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Irish: soc — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Irish: smuilc — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Irish: smut — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Italian: grugno — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Italian: muso — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Japanese: 鼻面 (hanazura) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Khmer: ច្រមុះ (crɑɑmoh) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Korean: 코 — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Korean: 주둥이 (judung'i) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Lithuanian: snukis — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Low German: Snuut — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Macedonian: муцка (mucka) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Māori: ihu — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Mongolian: хошуу (xošuu) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Norwegian: tryne — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Norwegian Bokmål: snute — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: snute — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Occitan: morre — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Persian: پوزه (puze) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Persian: نس (nos) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Polish: ryj — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Portuguese: focinho — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Romanian: bot — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Romanian: rât — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Russian: мо́рда (mórda) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Russian: ры́ло (rýlo) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Scottish Gaelic: sròn — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Serbo-Croatian: њушка — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Serbo-Croatian: njuška — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Slovak: ňufák — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Slovak: rypák — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Slovene: gobec — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Spanish: hocico — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Swedish: tryne — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Swedish: nos — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Tajik: фӯк (fük) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Telugu: ముట్టె (muṭṭe) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Tetum: inur — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Thai: พวย (puai) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Ukrainian: мо́рда (mórda) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Ukrainian: пи́сок (pýsok) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Ukrainian: хра́па (xrápa) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Ukrainian: ри́ло (rýlo) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Uzbek: angor — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Vietnamese: mõm — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Volapük: snud — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Volapük: probodül — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Volapük: svinaprobodül — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Welsh: trwyn — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Yiddish: פּיסק (pisk) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Yiddish: שנויץ (shnoyts) — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Zulu: impumulo — long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast
  • Bulgarian: нос (nos) — front of the prow of a ship or boat
  • Finnish: kokka — front of the prow of a ship or boat
  • Bulgarian: голям нос (goljam nos) — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Catalan: nas — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Catalan: nàpia — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Danish: snude — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Danish: snudeskaft — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Dutch: snuit — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Dutch: snoet — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Finnish: nokka — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Finnish: klyyvari — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Galician: napia — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Hebrew: חוטם (khótem) — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Italian: proboscide — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Persian: پوز (puz) — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Polish: ryj — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Portuguese: focinho — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Russian: шно́бель (šnóbelʹ) — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Russian: руби́льник (rubílʹnik) — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Russian: ры́ло (rýlo) — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Spanish: narizota — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Spanish: narices — nose of a man (in contempt)
  • Finnish: suu — nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
  • Finnish: pää — nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
  • Hebrew: פיה (piyá) — nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
  • Russian: сопло́ (sopló) — nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
  • Spanish: boquilla — nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
  • Finnish: kärsä — anterior prolongation of the head of gastropod
  • Spanish: hocico — anterior prolongation of the head of gastropod
  • Spanish: trompa — anterior prolongation of the head of gastropod
  • Spanish: probóscide — anterior prolongation of the head of gastropod
  • Bashkir: морон (moron) — anterior prolongation of head of weevil and other insects
  • Dutch: snuit — anterior prolongation of head of weevil and other insects
  • Finnish: kärsä — anterior prolongation of head of weevil and other insects
  • Hungarian: ormány — anterior prolongation of head of weevil and other insects
  • Spanish: hocico — anterior prolongation of head of weevil and other insects
  • Spanish: trompa — anterior prolongation of head of weevil and other insects
  • Spanish: probóscide — anterior prolongation of head of weevil and other insects
  • Finnish: rööki — slang: tobacco; cigarettes
  • Finnish: etureuna — terminus of a glacier
  • Bulgarian: доносник (donosnik) — slang: police informer
  • Finnish: vasikka — slang: police informer
  • French: indic — slang: police informer
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