Snout
WordNet
noun
(1) A long projecting or anterior elongation of an animal's head; especially the nose
(2) Beaklike projection of the anterior part of the head of certain insects such as e.g. weevils
(3) Informal terms for the nose
WiktionaryText
Noun
- The long, projecting nose, mouth and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
- The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout
- The nose of a man, (in contempt).
- His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.
- The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
- If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
- Tobacco; cigarettes.
- 1982, Edward Bond, Saved
- LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us some snout. / MIKE. Five or ten?
- 2000, Joe Randolph Ackerley, P N Furbank, We Think the World of You
- Also he was "doing his nut" for some "snout." I said I would provide cigarettes.
- 2004, Allan Sillitoe, New and Collected Stories
- Raymond rolled a neat cigarette. "What about some snout, then?" "No, thanks." He laughed. Smoke drifted from his open mouth.
- 1982, Edward Bond, Saved