snout
n. countablen. the long nose and mouth of an animal like a pig or a dog. It can also be a rude word for a person's nose.
n. the projecting nose and mouth of an animal, especially a mammal. In informal or derogatory contexts, it refers to a human nose.
The pig used its snout to dig in the dirt.
The dog pressed its wet snout against the window to watch the birds in the garden.
The tapir's flexible snout allows it to grab leaves and fruit from branches that would otherwise be out of reach in the dense jungle.
From Middle English snowte, snout, snute, from Old English snūt, from Proto-West Germanic snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Compare Saterland Frisian Snuute (“snout”), West Frisian snút (“snout”), Dutch snuit or snoet (“snout; cute face”), German Low German Snuut (“snout”), German Schnauze, Schnute (“snout”). Doublet of snoot.
Commonly used in biological descriptions of mammals; used metaphorically or as slang in human contexts.