snoot
English
Etymology
From Scots snoot, snout (“snout”), from Middle English snowte, from Middle Dutch snute; ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Doublet of snout.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /snuːt/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -uːt
Noun
snoot (plural snoots)
- (informal) An elitist individual; one who looks down upon lower social classes.
- 1943, Lucius Morris Beebe, Snoot if You Must, D. Appleton-Century Company, Incorporated, page 44:
- The sidecars— sneer if you will, you purists and gastronomic snoots— at Perino's in Wilshire in Los Angeles.
- 2013 October 29, Moosewood Collective, Sundays at Moosewood Restaurant: Ethnic and Regional Recipes from the Cooks at the Legendary Restaurant, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 96:
- In defense of low-grade teas, I must say they are very cheap, and I have a large box in my cupboard right next to the higher quality, more snoot-worthy varieties.
- 2014 January 31, Robert B Parker, Perish Twice, Oldcastle Books, →ISBN, page 73:
- “Do you know any of Larry's other partners?” “Some.” “Do you know Mary Lou Goddard?” “Oh, that snoot.” “Snoot?” “Yes, Larry told me about her. He went out with her a couple of times and then she got possessive.”
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- A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (dialectal or slang) A nose or snout, especially in derogatory use.
- 2013 March 3 [1966], Friedrich Reck, Paul Rubens, transl., Diary of a Man in Despair, New York Review of Books, →ISBN, page 173:
- And then he did something which must be unprecedented in jurisprudence. He leaped from his chair, ran over to the old man, and shaking his fist under his nose, roared: 'Listen, you! If you keep on with this stuff, I'll punch you one in the snoot!
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- (Internet slang, childish, humorous) Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo"), cat ("catto"), or snake ("snek").
- (theater, photography) A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.
- 2014 December 26, Alyn Stafford, Flash Techniques for Location Portraiture: Single and Multiple-Flash Lighting Techniques, Amherst Media, →ISBN, page 36:
- Snoots have traditionally been round in shape when attached to studio strobes, but with flash photography, they have taken on a more rectangular shape because the flash heads are rectangular.
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Synonyms
- (nose): See Thesaurus:nose
Derived terms
- droop snoot
Related terms
- snootful
- snooty
Translations
slang: human nose — see schnozzle
theater: cylindrical or conical attachment on a spotlight
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Verb
snoot (third-person singular simple present snoots, present participle snooting, simple past and past participle snooted)
- To behave disdainfully toward someone. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (transitive, theater, photography) To apply a snoot attachment to (a light).
- 2011, Joe McNally, Sketching Light
- Which might mean shaping it, gelling it, snooting it, barn dooring it, and putting it on a stand or a clamp. Maybe taking the dome diffuser off. Perhaps zooming it. Oh my. And you thought you were just taking a picture.
- 2011, Joe McNally, Sketching Light
Anagrams
- Notos, ONTOS, Ontos, Soton, oonts, tonos, toons
Dutch
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
snoot
- singular past indicative of snuiten
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English snowte. Cognate with English snout.
Noun
snoot (plural snoots)
- (anatomy) snout, face, head
- (geography) a projecting point of land
- peak of a cap
- (slang) detective, policeman
Derived terms
- snoot-cloot