Scouted vs Snouted - What's the difference?
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(scout)
A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
* Cowper
A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
(British) A college student's or undergraduate's servant; -- so called in Oxford, England; at Cambridge called a gyp; and at Dublin, a skip.
(British, cricket) A fielder in a game for practice.
A fighter aircraft.
(intransitive) To explore a wide terrain, as on a search; to reconnoiter.
To observe, watch, or look for, as a scout; to follow for the purpose of observation, as a scout.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To reject with contempt.
* 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
* Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
To scoff.
* 1851 , (Herman Melville), , ch. 45
(dated) A swift sailing boat.
* Samuel Pepys
(snout)
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 verbs the difference between scouted and snouted
is that scouted is (scout) while snouted is (snout).scouted
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Etymology 1
From (etyl), from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- while the rat is on the scout
Verb
- Take more men, and scout him round.
Derived terms
* scout about * scout around * scout out * scout round * scout upEtymology 2
Of Scandinavian origin: compare Old Norse sk?ti, sk?ta = "taunt"; thus may be related to "shout".Verb
(en verb)- to scout an idea or an apology
- Flout 'em and scout' 'em; and ' scout 'em and flout 'em: / Thought is free.
- I don't think I had any definite idea where Dora came from, or in what degree she was related to a higher order of beings; but I am quite sure I should have scouted the notion of her being simply human, like any other young lady, with indignation and contempt.
- So ignorant are most landsmen of some of the plainest and most palpable wonders of the world, that without some hints touching the plain facts, historical and otherwise, of the fishery, they might scout at Moby Dick as a monstrous fable, or still worse and more detestable, a hideous and intolerable allegory.
Etymology 3
Icelandic skta? a small craft or cutter.Noun
(en noun)- So we took a scout , very much pleased with the manner and conversation of the passengers.
Etymology 4
Icelandic word, meaning "to jut out".See also
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(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.