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A snout is the long nose and mouth part that sticks out on the front of some animals' faces, especially pigs, but also dogs and other animals with a pointed face. It's a specific animal-body word, not used for humans (that would just be 'nose'), except sometimes as a joking insult.
（動物的）口鼻部、豬鼻
原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
snoutnoun/snaʊt/
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The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
- The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout.
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The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
- The dinghy was trailing astern at the end of its painter, and Merrion looked at it as he passed. He saw that it was a battered-looking affair of the prahm type, with a blunt snout, and like the parent ship, had recently been painted a vivid green.
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derogatoryA person's nose.
- His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout.
- Whether his snout a perfect nose is, And not an elephant's proboscis
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The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
- If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
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The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
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The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
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slangTobacco; cigarettes.
- (Bob, p. 55:) Charlie was the most vicious screw on the block ... He caught me with the two ounces of snout right in my hand, caught me by the hair, and swung me round in the exercise yard ... (Spider, p. 175:) She brings me snout and sweets, and sometimes a cake from Mum.
- LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us some snout. / MIKE. Five or ten?
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The terminus of a glacier.
另外 2 個記錄的用法
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slangA police informer.
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A butterfly in the nymphalid subfamily Libytheinae, notable for the snout-like elongation on their heads.
snoutverb/snaʊt/
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To furnish with a nozzle or point.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。