Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A snout or nose.
- n. A snob.
- v. To treat haughtily: a couple who were snooted by the headwaiter.
Wiktionary
- n. slang Nose
- n. theater A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- n. informal terms for the nose
Etymologies
- From a Scots cognate of snout. (Wiktionary)
- 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.”
“One of the first things that leaped off the page and clouted me in the snoot was a phrase in the opening paragraph.”
“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.”
“The transmitter attaches to your camera, A snoot is a cone-shaped device that looks like an inverted funnel.”
“Make a camera flash "snoot" for dramatic lighting effects”
“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:”
“I was just expanding on your self admission of being a "snoot".”
“County) and to the striker; and that the verb "to swot" and the noun substantive "snoot" were likewise indefensible, and not to be tolerated.”
“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.”
“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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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘snoot’.
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snose words
Words that relate to the nose, particularly those that begin with sn-
sniff, sneer, snub, sneeze, snarl, snort, snide, snout, snob, snooze, snot, snore and 11 more...
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The Nose Knows
Being Nosy.
nosethril, nostril, nebby, nasal, rhinoplasty, pug, button, Roman, turned-up, Pinocchio, Cyrano de Bergerac, Gonzo and 54 more...
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Cold comfort farm again
cowdling, dormer, mullion, scullion, snood, snoot, scranlet, kith, oleaginous, lambency, dissever, loafing and 27 more...
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PMPope's list
Words for Words
asterix, garrulous, ampersand, exclaimation, ponderous, fickle, finale, etheric, solar, astronomic, plummeting, fogline and 33 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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andrew.simone's Words
elan, prestidigitation, flummoxed, autochthonous, missive, hoi polloi, schadenfreude, frou-frou, oolong, burleseque, ontic, etymology and 165 more...
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Wrongheads
Insults that make me laugh. Some of these are re-contextualized because they sound like insults to me.
wretched, dasdardly, sniveling, dingbat, rankle, vapid, ninny, nincompoop, dolt, imbecile, fucktard, scoundrel and 173 more...
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laugharn's Words
schoenfraun, schadenfreude, scrabble, meta, phantom, interceptor, incandescence, synecdoche, tmesis, reverie, heretofore, tantamount and 35 more...
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one-chunk
deft, ept, eft, ilk, gad, thorp, fug, hwæt, surd, scraunched, whence, hence and 19 more...
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Trout Mask Replica
Lyrics from the Captain Beefheart album
frownland, dove-winged, bobbin, tote'n, scamperin', krimpt, spam, limbo, bimbo, dachau, bulbous, nitty and 80 more...
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That's Not a Banana
That's my nose!
nose, beak, bazooka, schnozz, honker, bugle, sneezer, old factory, schnozzola, proboscis, whiffer, trunk and 16 more...
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A River Runs Through It
Words and phrases from A River Runs Through It, & Other Stories by Norman Maclean.
gyppo, carborundum, railroader, prat, nemo me impune la..., manse, rune, underskin, dairymaid, angleworm, snoot, scarifying and 32 more...
Tweets
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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