snout

• n. 鼻子；豬嘴；煙草；鼻口部；口吻狀物

來自中古低地德語 snute,鼻子，口鼻部，來自 Proto-Germanic*snut,鼻子，擬聲詞，模仿鼻子 發出的聲音。引申諸相關詞義。

snout

snout: [13] Snout and snot [14] are very close etymologically. Both go back ultimately to a prehistoric Germanic base *snut-or *snūt-, source also of obsolete English snite ‘wipe or pick one’s nose’, German schneuzen ‘blow one’s nose’, and German schnauze ‘snout’ (whence English schnauzer ‘German breed of dog’ [20]). The colloquial snoot ‘nose’ [19] is an alteration of snout, and formed the basis of the adjective snooty [20] (the underlying idea being of holding one’s ‘nose’ in the air in a superior way).
=> schnauzer, snooty, snot

snout (n.)

early 13c., "trunk or projecting nose of an animal," from Middle Low German and Middle Dutch snute "snout," from Proto-Germanic *snut- (cognates: German Schnauze, Norwegian snut, Danish snude "snout"), which Watkins traces to a hypothetical Germanic root *snu- forming words having to do with the nose, imitative of a sudden drawing of breath (compare Old English gesnot "nasal mucus;" German schnauben "pant, puff, snort" (Austrian dialect), schnaufen "breathe heavily, pant," Schnupfen "cold in the head;" Old Norse snaldr "snout" (of a serpent), snuthra "to sniff, snuffle"). Of other animals and (contemptuously) of humans from c. 1300.

1. The snout of the Mercedes poked through the gates.

奔馳轎車的前部把大門洞穿了。

來自柯林斯例句

2. the snout of a pistol

手槍槍管

來自《權威詞典》

3. Pigs dig earth with the snout.

豬用嘴拱地.

來自《現代漢英綜合大詞典》

4. The tank stopped with the long snout of its gun turned to the ridge.

坦克停了下來，長長的炮管轉過來瞄準了山脊。

來自柯林斯例句

5. He was so happy he wanted to snout for joy.

他高興,他想歡呼!

來自漢英文學 - 駱駝祥子