snout

FREQ #19269

n. 鼻口部, 鼻子, 口吻状物, 烟草

发音

US /snaʊt/
CA /snʌʊt/

词形变化

snouts 复数 snouts snouted snouting snouts 三单 snouting 现在分词 snouted 过去式 snouted 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A police informer.

    俚语
  2. 2.

    The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

    口吻

    The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.

  3. 3.

    The front of the prow of a ship or boat.

  4. 4.

    A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.

  5. 5.

    A person's nose.

    贬义

    His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.

  6. 6.

    The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.

    If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.

  7. 7.

    The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.

  8. 8.

    The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.

  9. 9.

    Tobacco; cigarettes.

    俚语
  10. 10.

    The terminus of a glacier.

v.
  1. 1.

    To furnish with a nozzle or point.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 9

beak nozzle hooter snoot neb honker rostrum schnoz schnozzle

上位词 2

nose olfactory organ

下位词 2

trunk proboscis

整体词 1

muzzle

相关短语

snout beetle n. 象鼻虫 snout moth 螟蛾 snout moths snout beetles snout butterfly 喙蝶 snout butterflies elephant's snout volute elephant's snout volutes tiger snout seahorse tiger snout seahorses swine's snout American snout hog's snout

词源

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 Saterland Frisian Snuute (“snout”), West Frisian snút (“snout”), Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Low German Snuut (“snout”), German Schnauze, Schnute (“snout”). Doublet of snoot.

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