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Shout vs Snout - What's the difference?

shout | snout |

As nouns the difference between shout and snout

is that shout is a loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, or animated courage while snout is the long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.

As verbs the difference between shout and snout

is that shout is to utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc while snout is to furnish with a nozzle or point.

shout

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A loud burst of voice or voices; a vehement and sudden outcry, especially that of a multitude expressing joy, triumph, exultation, or animated courage.
  • (UK, Australia, New Zealand, slang) A round of drinks in a pub; the turn to pay the shot or scot; an act of paying for a round of drinks.
  • * 1984 , , page 290,
  • “I?ll get my wine though,” taking out her wallet.
    “No. This is my shout ,” holding up his hand as though to ward her money off.
  • * 2006 , (Lily Allen), Knock 'Em Out
  • Cut to the pub on a lads night out,
    Man at the bar cos it was his shout
  • * 2008 , George Papaellinas, The Trip: An Odyssey , re.press, Australia, page 6,
  • It was always my shout down the pub with Theo.
  • (UK, Australia, jargon, slang) A call-out for an emergency services team.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.
  • * '', Act I, Scene II, 1797, George Steevens (editor), ''The Plays of William Shakespeare , Volume 7, page 15,
  • They ?houted thrice; what was the la?t cry for?
  • To utter with a shout; to cry; -- sometimes with out; as, to shout, or to shout out, a man's name.
  • (obsolete) To treat with shouts or clamor.
  • (Bishop Hall)
  • (colloquial) To pay for food, drink or entertainment for others.
  • I?ll shout you all a drink.
    He?s shouting us all to the opening night of the play.
  • * 1999 , Peter Moore, The Wrong Way Home: London to Sydney the Hard Way , page 301,
  • After shouting me a plate of noodles and limp vegetables, he helped me change money by introducing me to the stallholder who offered the best exchange rates.
  • * 2003 , Peter Watt, To Chase the Storm , Pan MacMillan Australia, unnumbered page,
  • ‘I have not seen my cousin Patrick in years,’ Martin answered defensively. ‘I doubt that, considering the way our lives have gone, an officer of the King?s army would be shouting me a drink in Mr O?Riley?s pub these days.’
  • * 2005 , George G. Spearing, Dances with Marmots: A Pacific Crest Trail Adventure , page 32,
  • Anyhow, he obviously bore no grudge against Kiwis, for he shouted me a beer and opened another one for himself, punctuating the operation with a spectacular and resounding fart that by all the laws of physical science should have left his trousers flapping in smouldering shreds.
  • * 2010 , Ivan Dunn, The Legend of Beau Baxter , HarperCollins Publishers, New Zealand, unnumbered page,
  • Truth is, I notice the other blokes who have been shouting me nodding among themselves and thinking they?d better get in the queue if I am buying. Not likely. I am out of there.
  • (Internet) To post a text message (for example, email) in upper case.
  • Please don't shout in the chat room.

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    Derived terms

    * shout down * shout out

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    snout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs.
  • The pig rooted around in the dirt with its snout .
  • The front of the prow of a ship or boat.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1944, author=(w)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • (derogatory) A person's nose.
  • His glasses kept slipping further down onto his prominent snout .
    (Hudibras)
  • The nozzle of a pipe, hose, etc.
  • If you place the snout right into the bucket, it won't spray as much.
  • 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
  • (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.
  • * 1982 , Edward Bond, Saved
  • LIZ. I only got one left. / FRED (calls). Get us some snout . / MIKE. Five or ten?
  • * 2000 , Joe Randolph Ackerley, P N Furbank, We Think the World of You
  • Also he was "doing his nut" for some "snout ." I said I would provide cigarettes.
  • * 2004 , Allan Sillitoe, New and Collected Stories
  • Raymond rolled a neat cigarette. "What about some snout , then?" "No, thanks." He laughed. Smoke drifted from his open mouth.
  • Terminus of a glacier.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To furnish with a nozzle or point.
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