Definitions for snout

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IPA: /snaʊt/

Snout is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 53 anagrams from letters in snout (nostu).

Definitions for snout

noun

1. the part of an animal's head projecting forward and containing the nose and jaws; muzzle.
2. Entomology. an anterior prolongation of the head bearing the mouth parts, as in snout beetles.
3. anything that resembles or suggests an animal's snout in shape, function, etc.
4. a nozzle or spout.
5. a person's nose, especially when large or prominent.

Origin of snout

1175-1225; Middle English snute; cognate with Dutch snuite, German Schnauze

Examples for snout

He had his snout thrust out, and was "sniffing" at a great rate.

It has a small head, the snout sharpened and bent slightly downwards.

Protected by no bony structure the snout of the monster was amputated.

Pterygium: a lateral expansion of the snout of some Coleoptera.

They noticed a great gaping wound as if done by a sword-cut on his snout.

With the breeze biting her weather bow, I'll hold her snout into it.

They only allow the end of the snout, or at most the head, to appear.

The peccary, having its snout tied up, was unable to squeak.

The nostrils are on the upper part of the snout, through which it blows like a whale.

One man, a butcher, was pulling on a rope which was tied around a porker's snout.