snoute

== Middle English == === Alternative forms === snout, snowte, snowth, snute === Etymology === Either from an Old English *snūt, *snūte or Middle Low German snûte, both from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈsnuːt(ə)/ === Noun === snoute (plural snoutes) An animal's snout or trunk (long, projecting nose and mouth). (derogatory) The nose of a person; the flesh surrounding the nasal cavity. The facial features or appearance of a person; how one's face looks. (figuratively) The temperament or behaviour of a person. The point of something sharp (e.g. a needle or a seafaring vessel of war) ==== Descendants ==== English: snout Scots: snout, snoot → English: snoot ==== References ==== “snǒut(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 February 2019. Barnhart, Robert and Steinmetz, Sol, editors (1988), “snout”, in The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology‎[1], Bronxville, N.Y.: The H. W. Wilson Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 1027-1028. Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “snout”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology‎[2], Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 841, column 1; reprinted 1994.