snouteとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Either from an 古期英語 *snūt, *snūte or Middle Low German snûte, both from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz.

発音

• IPA: /ˈsnuːt(ə)/

名詞

snoute (plural snoutes)

1. An animal's snout or trunk (long, projecting nose and mouth).
2. (derogatory) The nose of a person; the flesh surrounding the nasal cavity.
3. The facial features or appearance of a person; how one's face looks.
4. (figuratively) The temperament or behaviour of a person.
5. The point of something sharp (e.g. a needle or a seafaring vessel of war)

派生した語

• English: snout
• Scots: snout, snoot
  • → English: snoot

参照

• “snǒut(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 25 February 2019.
• Barnhart, Robert and Steinmetz, Sol, editors (1988), “snout”, in The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology‎, Bronxville, N.Y.: The H. W. Wilson Co., →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 1027-1028.
• Onions, C[harles] T., Friedrichsen, G. W. S., and Burchfield, R[obert] W., editors (1966), “snout”, in The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology‎, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 841, column 1; reprinted 1994.