snout

 
Pronunciation: /snaʊt/

noun

  • 1the projecting nose and mouth of an animal, especially a mammal: a sea lion balanced a ball on its snout
  • informal a person’s nose: a guard with a pair of vicious piggy eyes above a snarling snout
  • the projecting front or end of something such as a pistol: he was stopped by the snout of her pistol
  • 2British informal a cigarette.
  • [mass noun] tobacco.
  • 3British informal a police informer: his arrest had been the work of some anonymous snout
  • 4 (also snout moth) a European moth with long palps that extend in front of the head like a snout.
    • Hypsena and other genera, family Noctuidae, in particular the snout (H. proboscidalis)

Derivatives

snouted

adjective
[often in combination]: long-snouted baboons

snouty

adjective

Origin:

Middle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German snūt; related to snot