Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To furnish with a nozzle or point.
The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs. · The front of the prow of a ship or boat. · A person's nose. · The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English *snūt, *snūte or Middle Low German snûte, from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute (“snout”), West Frisian snút (“snout”), Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Low German Snuut (“snout”), German Schnauze, Schnute (“snout”). Doublet of snoot.
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