- the long nose and area around the mouth of some types of animal, such as a pig compare muzzleTopics Animalsc2
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- (informal, humorous) a person’s nose
- a part of something that sticks out at the front
- the snout of a pistol
Word OriginMiddle English: from Middle Dutch, Middle Low German snūt; related to snot.
Idioms
See snout in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionaryget/have your nose/snout in the trough
- (British English, informal, disapproving) if you say that people have their noses in the trough, you mean that they are trying to get a lot of money for themselves
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