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Definition of snoot in English: snootnoun snuːtsnut 1informal A person's nose. a remark that might warrant a good smack in the snoot Example sentencesExamples - It's a loss I suppose, although, in my business, a bum snoot can be an asset.
- Sticking my snoot into the glass, the aroma is that of stale grass.
- She casually and inexplicably decides that it's okay to fill her snoot with cocaine.
- And when I shot a glare at one of the more egregious loud talkers, she looked down her long, expensively-altered snoot at my volunteer nametag and hissed, ‘Oh, it's not like you paid to get in here and see her.’
- Walk in with a pretension in your heart or a lift to your snoot and he would expertly deflate you.
2informal A person who shows contempt for those considered to be of a lower social class. the snoots complain that the paper has lowered its standards Example sentencesExamples - So the royal snoots spoke in their endless debates: ‘Yes, the one that should succeed in conquering all must gain power on the home front, but one also must disable the enemy abroad.’
- This kind of coinage and derivation is a typical process in the creative evolution of language, and is exactly the sort of thing that snoots like to deprecate.
- I'm probably the haughty snoot that deters peasants from going to the Opera (all power to me, then!).
- He was the leading exponent of photorealism, a school of art that was probably maligned by the snoots but embraced, bemusedly, by the pop artists.
3A tubular or conical attachment used to produce a narrow beam from a spotlight. a small flash unit was fitted with a snoot
adjectivesnuːt informal Stylish and sophisticated.
Origin Mid 19th century: variant of snout. Rhymes acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, jute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute Definition of snoot in US English: snootnounsnutsno͞ot 1informal A person's nose. Example sentencesExamples - She casually and inexplicably decides that it's okay to fill her snoot with cocaine.
- Sticking my snoot into the glass, the aroma is that of stale grass.
- It's a loss I suppose, although, in my business, a bum snoot can be an asset.
- And when I shot a glare at one of the more egregious loud talkers, she looked down her long, expensively-altered snoot at my volunteer nametag and hissed, ‘Oh, it's not like you paid to get in here and see her.’
- Walk in with a pretension in your heart or a lift to your snoot and he would expertly deflate you.
2informal A person who shows contempt for those considered to be of a lower social class. the snoots complain that the paper has lowered its standards Example sentencesExamples - He was the leading exponent of photorealism, a school of art that was probably maligned by the snoots but embraced, bemusedly, by the pop artists.
- So the royal snoots spoke in their endless debates: ‘Yes, the one that should succeed in conquering all must gain power on the home front, but one also must disable the enemy abroad.’
- I'm probably the haughty snoot that deters peasants from going to the Opera (all power to me, then!).
- This kind of coinage and derivation is a typical process in the creative evolution of language, and is exactly the sort of thing that snoots like to deprecate.
3A tubular or conical attachment used to produce a narrow beam from a spotlight.
Origin Mid 19th century: variant of snout. |