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Snout vs Stout - What's the difference?

snout | stout |

As nouns the difference between snout and stout

is that snout is the long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs while stout is a dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.

As a verb snout

is to furnish with a nozzle or point.

As an adjective stout is

large; bulky, thickset; corpulent, fat.

As a proper noun Stout is

{{surname}.

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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    stout

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • large; bulky, thickset; corpulent, fat.
  • (obsolete) bold, strong-minded; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular.
  • * Shakespeare
    • a stouter champion never handled sword
  • * Clarendon
    • He lost the character of a bold, stout , magnanimous man.
  • * Daniel
    • The lords all stand / To clear their cause, most resolutely stout .
  • (obsolete) proud; haughty; arrogant; hard.
  • * Bible, Mal. iii. 13
    • Your words have been stout against me.
  • * Latimer
    • Commonly they that be rich are lofty and stout .
  • firm; resolute; dauntless.
  • materially strong, enduring.
    • Campers prefer stout vessels, sticks and cloth.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 citation , passage=Nothing could be more business-like than the construction of the stout dams, and nothing more gently rural than the limpid lakes, with the grand old forest trees marshalled round their margins … .}}
  • obstinate.

    • Derived terms

    * stouten * stouthearted * stoutish * stoutly * stoutness

    Noun

    ("stout" on Wikipedia) (en noun)
  • A dark and strong malt brew made with toasted grain.
    • Stout is darker, stronger and sweeter than porter beer.
  • An obese person. (rfex)
  • A large clothing size. (rfex)

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