Other forms: snouts
A snout is the projecting nose and mouth of an animal. A pig's snout, the snout twitched, a long snout.
It carries most of what the animal knows: a dog's snout holds far more scent receptors than a human nose, and a pig's is strong enough to plough soil. Used of a person it is rude. In British slang a snout is also an informer or a cigarette.
1nounsnoutThe projecting nose and mouth of an animal.
“The pig pushed its snout into the mud, looking for roots.”
snout is a nose.
Middle English snowte comes from a Germanic root also behind snot and snuff.
Proto-Germanic
*snūtaz
Proto-West Germanic
*snūt
Middle Low German
snûte
Old English
*snūt
Middle English
snowte
English, today
snout
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 stq Snuute (“snout”), West Frisian snút (“snout”), Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Low German Snuut (“snout”), German Schnauze, Schnute (“snout”). a doublet of snoot.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA