snout
/snʌʊt/
Dictionary
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 front of the prow of a ship or boat.
- A person's nose.
"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 a gastropod; a rostrum.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
- Tobacco; cigarettes.
- The terminus of a glacier.
- 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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