Mouth vs Snout - What's the difference?
mouth | snout |
(anatomy) The opening of a creature through which food is ingested.
* , chapter=7
, title= The end of a river out of which water flows into a sea or other large body of water.
An outlet, aperture or orifice.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 (slang) A loud or overly talkative person.
(saddlery) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.
(obsolete) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.
* Addison
(obsolete) Cry; voice.
(obsolete) Speech; language; testimony.
* Bible, Matt. xviii. 16
(obsolete) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.
* Shakespeare
To speak; to utter.
* Hare
To make the actions of speech, without producing sound.
To pick up or handle with the lips or mouth, but not chew or swallow.
(obsolete) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.
(obsolete) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear licks her cub.
(obsolete) To make mouths at.
The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
* {{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
, title= (derogatory) A person's nose.
The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
The anterior prolongation of the head of a gastropod; a rostrum.
The anterior prolongation of the head of weevils and allied beetles; a rostrum.
(British, slang) Tobacco; cigarettes.
* 1967 , Len Deighton, Only When I Laugh
* 1982 , Edward Bond, Saved
* 2000 , Joe Randolph Ackerley, P N Furbank, We Think the World of You
* 2004 , Allan Sillitoe, New and Collected Stories
Terminus of a glacier.
As nouns the difference between mouth and snout
is that mouth is the opening of a creature through which food is ingested while snout is the long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.As verbs the difference between mouth and snout
is that mouth is to speak; to utter while snout is to furnish with a nozzle or point.mouth
English
(wikipedia mouth)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs.
citation, passage=‘It was called the wickedest street in London and the entrance was just here. I imagine the mouth of the road lay between this lamp standard and the second from the next down there.’}}
- Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.
- (Dryden)
- that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established
- Counterfeit sad looks, / Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(en verb)- He mouthed his opinions on the subject at the meeting.
- mouthing big phrases
- The prompter mouthed the words to the actor, who had forgotten them.
- The fish mouthed the lure, but didn't bite.
- (Dryden)
- (Sir Thomas Browne)
Derived terms
(mouth) * a closed mouth gathers no feet * all mouth and pants/trousers]], all mouth and no pants/[[all mouth and no trousers, trousers, all mouth * ass-to-mouth/ATM * badmouth * bad taste in one's mouth * bellmouth * big mouth * blabbermouth * born with a silver spoon in one's mouth * broadmouth * cottonmouth * dirty mouth * don't look a gift horse in the mouth * down in the mouth * dragon's mouth * dry mouth * fishmouth * flannelmouth * flutemouth * foam at the mouth * foot-and-mouth/foot and mouth * frogmouth * froth at the mouth * goalmouth * guttermouth * headmouth * hand-foot-and-mouth disease * hand-to-mouth * horse's mouth * keep one's mouth shut * largemouth * loudmouth/loud-mouth, loudmouthed/loud-mouthed * motor mouth * mouth bow * mouth-breather * mouthbreathing * mouthbrooder * mouthed/-mouthed * mouther * mouthfeel * mouth-footed * mouth harp * mouth-made * mouth of a sailor * mouth mirror * mouthful * mouthguard * mouthless * mouthlike * mouthly * mouth music * mouth off * mouth organ * mouthpart * mouthpiece * mouth-to-mouth * mouthwash * mouthwatering/mouth-watering * mouthy * out of the mouths of babes * pipemouth * poormouth * potty mouth * put one's foot in one's mouth * put one's money where one's mouth is * put words in somebody's mouth * redmouth * river mouth * run off at the mouth * saltmouth * scabby mouth * sea mouth * shoot off at the mouth * shoot one's mouth off * shut one's mouth * smallmouth * smash-mouth/smashmouth * straight from the horse's mouth * suckermouth * trench mouth * warmouth * wash your mouth out * watch your mouth * word of mouth * wrymouthSee also
* orificesnout
English
Noun
(en noun)- The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout .
The Three Corpse Trick, section=chapter 5 , passage=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.}}
- His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout .
- (Hudibras)
- If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
- (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?
- Also he was "doing his nut" for some "snout ." I said I would provide cigarettes.
- Raymond rolled a neat cigarette. "What about some snout , then?" "No, thanks." He laughed. Smoke drifted from his open mouth.