snout /snʌʊt/noun 10verb 1forms 3 noun10 •The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout. •The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum. •The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum. •(disapproving) A person's nose.His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout. •The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much. •(UK, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us some snout. / MIKE. Five or ten? — 1982 •(slang) A police informer. •The front of the prow of a ship or boat. •The terminus of a glacier. •A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads. verb1 •To furnish with a nozzle or point. formssnouted · snouting · snouts
