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Snout vs Knout - What's the difference?

snout | knout |

As nouns the difference between snout and knout

is that snout is the long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs while knout is a leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial russia.

As verbs the difference between snout and knout

is that snout is to furnish with a nozzle or point while knout is to flog or beat with a knout.

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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    knout

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A leather scourge (multi-tail whip), in the severe version known as 'great knout' with metal weights on each tongue, notoriously used in imperial Russia.
  • * 1980': Spray and then slogging '''knouts of water hit the windows or lights like snarling disaffected at a mansion of the rich and frivolous. — Anthony Burgess, ''Earthly Powers
  • * 2005': The lieutenant gave him twenty strokes of the '''knout and stuck him in a cage for a few days till the snow was ankle deep. — James Meek, ''The People's Act of Love (Canongate 2006, p. 193)

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To flog or beat with a knout.
  • * 1992 , Will Self, Cock and Bull :
    • Different, isn’t it? It’s called kava, by the way. The Fijians make it by knouting some root or other.
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