snootとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /snuːt/
• 韻: -uːt

名詞

snoot (複数形 snoots)

1. (informal) An elitist individual; one who looks down upon lower social classes.
   • 1943, Lucius Morris Beebe, Snoot if You Must‎^[1], D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, page 44:

     The sidecars— sneer if you will, you purists and gastronomic snoots— at Perino's in Wilshire in Los Angeles.

   • 2013 October 29, Moosewood Collective, Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant: Ethnic and Regional Recipes from the Cooks at the Legendary Restaurant‎^[2], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 96:

     In defense of low-grade teas, I must say they are very cheap, and I have a large box in my cupboard right next to the higher quality, more snoot-worthy varieties.

   • 2014 January 31, Robert B Parker, Perish Twice‎^[3], Oldcastle Books, →ISBN, page 73:

     “Do you know any of Larry's other partners?” “Some.” “Do you know Mary Lou Goddard?” “Oh, that snoot.” “Snoot?” “Yes, Larry told me about her. He went out with her a couple of times and then she got possessive.”

2. A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (dialectal or slang) A nose or snout, especially in derogatory use.
   • 2013 March 3 [1966], Friedrich Reck, Paul Rubens, transl., Diary of a Man in Despair‎^[4], New York Review of Books, →ISBN, page 173:

     And then he did something which must be unprecedented in jurisprudence. He leaped from his chair, ran over to the old man, and shaking his fist under his nose, roared: 'Listen, you! If you keep on with this stuff, I'll punch you one in the snoot!

4. (Internet slang, childish, humorous) Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo"), cat ("catto"), or snake ("snek").
5. (theater, photography) A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.
   • 2014 December 26, Alyn Stafford, Flash Techniques for Location Portraiture: Single and Multiple-Flash Lighting Techniques‎^[5], Amherst Media, →ISBN, page 36:

     Snoots have traditionally been round in shape when attached to studio strobes, but with flash photography, they have taken on a more rectangular shape because the flash heads are rectangular.

同意語

• (nose): See Thesaurus:nose

派生語

• droop snoot

関連する語

• snootful
• snooty