snout
/snaʊt/ sustantivo B2En español: hocico, boquilla, trompa, probóscide
- The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs. · The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.
- The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
- 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.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
- The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
- The terminus of a glacier.
- A police informer.
Plural snouts
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There could be no doubt that it had a _very_ turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the thing at all.
The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could.
In 1811 Mary's brother Joseph dug out a strange skull with a long, narrow snout and enormous eye sockets.
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