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noun

plural of snoot
1
as in snobs
a person who has an offensive air of superiority and tends to ignore or disdain anyone regarded as inferior our neighbor is a tiresome old snoot who keeps talking about how the neighborhood is going downhill

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2
as in noses
the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity an overbearing snob who walks around with her snoot up in the air

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3
as in frowns
a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval a snoot that suggested that she thought that she was better than the rest of us

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snoots

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verb

present tense third-person singular of snoot
as in disdains
to show contempt for after some modest success, the singer began to snoot the very people who had helped her get her career off the ground

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snoots
  1. snobs
  2. noses
  3. frowns
  4. disdains
  5. snouts
  6. scowls
  7. hates
  8. grimaces
Noun
  • Pinot Noir and Riesling snobs may prefer to hop across the lake to von Mandl’s winery that concentrates solelyon those grapes—Martin’s Lane.
    — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 18 July 2026
  • The move shocked snobs everywhere, who could not believe that the future Queen of England had chosen a ring from a common catalogue.
    — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 26 June 2026
Definition of snobs
Noun
  • Their noses and the inside of their ears and their long tongue muscles were delightfully pink, the color of a crayon.
    — Rachel Yoder, New Yorker, 2 Aug. 2026
  • Everyone was blown away that this happened under their noses.
    — Seth Abramovitch, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026
Definition of noses
Noun
  • Numbers might be up, but frowns are also up.
    — Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026
  • No smiles, no frowns, no fluctuations of body warmth.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 June 2026
Definition of frowns
Verb
  • And, like Maverick, Hegseth disdains rules against showy flyovers.
    — Missy Ryan, The Atlantic, 22 July 2026
  • The title character disdains the common folk, and the play’s complicated political discussion and harsh, jagged poetry aren’t what most picnicking playgoers are after.
    — Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
Definition of disdains
Noun
  • Their long, droopy tails would likely pull them downward and send their snouts bobbing up.
    — Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 15 July 2026
  • With their snouts, the pigs would feel each beat of my heart the way a human would feel a silver dollar that had been flipped in the air then caught in an open palm, flipped and caught, coming up heads or tails, whichever side had been called when the coin was at its apogee.
    — Will Mackin, New Yorker, 28 June 2026
Definition of snouts
Noun
  • One of the series’ most creative elements is the variety of scowls Graham deploys while arguing with Hezekiah, Mary, or his younger brother, Treacle (James Nelson-Joyce), a pragmatic family man who represents everything Sugar’s life could have been if he weren’t filled with so much self-loathing.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
Definition of scowls
Verb
  • Could Kohberger have been a serial killer in the making, a man who hates women, or is there enough evidence to exonerate him altogether?
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 30 July 2026
  • Crystal hates that shows drop an entire season on release day, and thinks streaming has eroded the monoculture that used to propel powerful franchises to billion-dollar heights.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 30 July 2026
Definition of hates
Noun
  • Back at the team bus, the high fives and handshakes wore grimaces.
    — Jacob Whitehead, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • In the video, Claffey tries to move Ansell away from the subject and grimaces at the camera when his costar seems to say a little too much.
    — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 17 Feb. 2026
Definition of grimaces
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