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Snout vs Tooth - What's the difference?

snout | tooth |

As nouns the difference between snout and tooth

is that snout is the long, projecting nose, mouth, and jaw of a beast, as of pigs while tooth is a hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.

As verbs the difference between snout and tooth

is that snout is to furnish with a nozzle or point while tooth is to provide or furnish with teeth.

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.
  • References

    Anagrams

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    tooth

    English

    (wikipedia tooth)

    Noun

    (teeth)
  • A hard, calcareous structure present in the mouth of many vertebrate animals, generally used for eating.
  • A sharp projection on the blade of a saw or similar implement.
  • A projection on the edge of a gear that meshes with similar projections on adjacent gears, or on the circumference of a cog that engages with a chain.
  • (botany) A pointed projection from the margin of a leaf.
  • (animation) The rough surface of some kinds of cel or other films that allow better adhesion of artwork.
  • (figurative) taste; palate
  • I have a sweet tooth : I love sugary treats.
  • * Dryden
  • These are not dishes for thy dainty tooth .

    Hyponyms

    * (structure in the mouth) bicuspid, canine, cuspid, incisor, premolar, molar * See also

    Derived terms

    * back tooth * clean as a hound's tooth * eyetooth * fight tooth and nail * long in the tooth * milk tooth * sweet tooth * teethe verb * toothache * tooth and nail * toothbrush * tooth fairy * toothless * toothpaste * toothpick * toothsome * toothlike * toothly * toothy * wisdom tooth

    See also

    (see also) * bicuspid * canine * cuspid * dental * dentist * denture * fang * incisor * molar * orling * premolar * prong * tine

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To provide or furnish with teeth.
  • * (rfdate) (William Wordsworth)
  • The twin cards toothed with glittering wire.
  • To indent; to jag.
  • to tooth a saw
  • To lock into each other, like gear wheels.
  • (Moxon)