snout
part of speech
noun (a snout, snouts)
meaning for a pupil
1) A snout is the long nose and mouth part that sticks out at the front of some animals' faces, such as pigs, dogs, crocodiles and anteaters. tree →
2) (informal, joking or rude) A snout can mean a person's nose. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science lessons snouts come up in adaptations: a pig's snout digs for food, an anteater's long snout reaches into ant nests, a crocodile's snout shape shows what it eats. In stories and descriptions «snout» helps describe an animal's face. «To have your snout in the trough» (UK, informal) means to be greedy for money or rewards.
examples
- The pig dug in the mud with its snout. tree →
- The anteater pushed its long snout into the ant nest. tree →
- The dog sniffed the ground with its wet snout. tree →
- A crocodile's snout is long and narrow. tree →
- The hedgehog's snout twitched as it smelled a worm. tree →
- «Keep your snout out of my business!» snapped the troll. tree →
- She bethought herself of her father’s words, and, pulling out her pocket handkerchief, she gently wiped the Pig’s snout and kissed it. tree →
note
Plural «snouts». Countable. Calling a person's nose a snout is rude or jokey. Similar words: «muzzle» (a dog's nose and mouth), «beak» (birds), «trunk» (elephants).
In the corpora
- Sharks sense the faint electricity of living animals with pores on their snouts called the ampullae of Lorenzini.
- Sharks also sense tiny electric signals from other animals' muscles through little pores on their snouts.
- Pigs learn names, solve puzzles and in one study even steered a joystick with their snouts to play a simple computer game.
- A sturgeon has five rows of bony plates along its body and four whiskers under its snout to feel for food.
- SuperCroc had a round bony bump at the tip of its snout, and nobody knows for sure what it was for.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «snout» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.