Snout vs Muzzle - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between snout and muzzle

is that snout is the long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs while muzzle is the protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout.

As verbs the difference between snout and muzzle

is that snout is to furnish with a nozzle or point while muzzle is to bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

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.

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, 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.

References

Anagrams

muzzle

English

(wikipedia)

Noun

(en noun)

The protruding part of many animal's head which includes nose, mouth and jaws; snout

The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from as opposed to the breech.

A device used to prevent animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.

(chiefly, Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached; bridle

(obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Derived terms

* muzzle blast * muzzle brake * muzzle compensator * muzzle energy * muzzleloader * muzzleloading * muzzle velocity

Verb

(muzzl)

To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.

* Bible, Deuteronomy xxv. 4

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

(figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); gag, silence, censor.

* 1919 , :

Man is brow-beaten, leashed, muzzled , masked, and lashed by boards and councils, by leagues and societies, by church and state.

(obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.

(obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.

(rfquotek, L'Estrange)

To bring the muzzle or mouth near.

* (rfdate) Sir R. L'Estrange

The bear muzzles and smells to him.

Derived terms

* muzzler

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