snout

Etymology

From Middle English snowte, snoute, from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German snute (alternatively spelled snuut, snuyt), from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute, Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Schnauze, Schnute. Doublet of snoot.

noun

1. The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
   The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.
2. The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
   The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green. 1944, Miles Burton, The Three Corpse Trick, chapter 5
3. (derogatory) A person's nose.
   His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.
4. The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
   If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
5. The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
6. The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
7. (Britain, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.
   (Bob, p. 55:) Charlie was the most vicious screw on the block ... He caught me with the two ounces of snout right in my hand, caught me by the hair, and swung me round in the exercise yard ... (Spider, p. 175:) She brings me snout and sweets, and sometimes a cake from Mum. 1967, Len Deighton, Only When I Larf
   LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us some snout. / MIKE. Five or ten? 1982, Edward Bond, Saved
   Also he was "doing his nut" for some "snout." I said I would provide cigarettes. 2000, Joe Randolph Ackerley, P N Furbank, We Think the World of You
   Raymond rolled a neat cigarette. "What about some snout, then?" "No, thanks." He laughed. Smoke drifted from his open mouth. 2004, Allan Sillitoe, New and Collected Stories
8. The terminus of a glacier.
9. (slang) A police informer.
10. A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.

verb

1. To furnish with a nozzle or point.