Snoots (2024)

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Snoot is a slang term for a snob—a snooty person. This sense of snoot is always used negatively. It refers to a person who thinks they have better taste or higher standards than other people and treats them in a condescending way because of it. The adjective snooty is much more commonly used than the noun snoot.

Snoot is a slang term for a snob—a snooty person. This sense of snoot is always used negatively. It refers to a person who thinks they have better taste or higher standards than other people and treats them in a condescending way because of it. The adjective snooty is much more commonly used than the noun snoot.

A snoot is a tube or similar object that fits over a light used in theatrical lighting or photography, to control the direction and radius of the light beam. Snoots can be cylindrical or truncated conical in shape, different lengths and diameters, and made of various materials.

An animal's long, protruding nose is often called a snout. The tricky part, though, is that not all long animal noses are called snouts. An elephant has a very long nose, but we don't call it a snout, we call it a trunk. A horse's nose is rarely referred to as a snout, because it's really their whole face that's long.

Any nose can be a “snoot,” even a person's nose too, which is slightly in contrast to “snout,” which is only used for human noses in an extremely derogatory manner.

poking an adorable nose while saying “boop!” concurrently. Our cats and kittens will happily give you their noses.

When shooting landscapes or architecture, you may want to highlight specific areas such as windows or walls. You can achieve this by using a snoot to direct light onto these areas. The narrow beam of light will create a more defined and focused highlight that will draw the viewer's eye to the highlighted area.

The English noun snoot is a Scottish variant of snout “the nose, muzzle.” Snout and snoot are akin to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch snute, German Schnauze, and more remotely to Old English gesnot “nasal mucus” (English snot), Middle Low German and Middle Dutch snotte, and German schneuzen “to blow one's nose.” The ...

A nose. An informer. A member of the Protestant community of Northern Ireland. Tobacco, in British prison slang.

The star-nosed mole (Condylura cristata) is a mole species that's famous for its celestial snoot, looking a bit like a hand is stuck to its face.

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Great apes have reduced muzzles, with the exception being human beings, whose face does not have protruding jaws nor a snout but merely a human nose.

A snout is the protruding portion of an animal's face, consisting of its nose, mouth, and jaw.

"as much (liquor) as one can take," 1885, from snoot (n.) + -ful.

snotbox (plural snotboxes) (slang) The nose.

A nose. An informer. A member of the Protestant community of Northern Ireland. Tobacco, in British prison slang.