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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A snout or nose.
  2. n. A snob.
  3. v. To treat haughtily: a couple who were snooted by the headwaiter.

Wiktionary

  1. n. slang Nose
  2. n. theater A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
  2. n. informal terms for the nose

Etymologies

  1. From a Scots cognate of snout. (Wiktionary)
  2. Dialectal variant of snout. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Here's a short article on how to make a simple "snoot" -- a lightproof tube that tightly directs the light from your camera flash.”

    Boing Boing

  • “One of the first things that leaped off the page and clouted me in the snoot was a phrase in the opening paragraph.”

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  • “And let's not forget Big Bill Thompson, the Chicago Mayor who threatened bodily harm to Britain's and Canada's King if he poked what Mr. Thompson somewhat inelegantly called his snoot into Chicago.”

    Canadian and American Relations

  • “The transmitter attaches to your camera, A snoot is a cone-shaped device that looks like an inverted funnel.”

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  • “Make a camera flash "snoot" for dramatic lighting effects”

    Boing Boing

  • “Miss Bailey turned to the so lately placid face of Sadie in search of the devastating "snoot," but met only a serene glance of conscious guilelessness and the assurance:”

    Little Citizens

  • “I was just expanding on your self admission of being a "snoot".”

    Home Theater Forum

  • “County) and to the striker; and that the verb "to swot" and the noun substantive "snoot" were likewise indefensible, and not to be tolerated.”

    Cressy

  • “Now, I am not a drinking man by habit but an occasional snoot-full I find refreshing, and these ladies beside from being good listeners take special pains in making themselves understood.”

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  • “In olden, golden Hollywood, Greg Kinnear might have made a comfortable living acting in Frank Capra movies, playing the kind of oily characters that runaway heiresses met on buses, or whom Gary Cooper had to, eventually, pop on the snoot.”

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  • Louises Pruning-snoot and reaping hook. Cold Comfort Farm Feb 18, 2013

  • andrew.simone I love that, if you drop an 'o' from the word, its illocutionary force still seems to remain. Dec 8, 2006

  • laugharn We are the Few, the Proud, the More or Less Constantly Appalled at Everyone Else. Dec 8, 2006

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‘snoot’ has been looked up 1564 times, loved by 1 person, added to 12 lists, commented on 3 times, and has a Scrabble score of 5.