as in nose
the part of the face bearing the nostrils and nasal cavity
dogs and their owners must grow to resemble one another, as that man and his basset hound have remarkably similar snouts
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Recent Examples of snout
The TikTok video gradually zooms in on the cushions, only to reveal Marlo’s snout sticking out from between the cushions after all.
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Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
Lesch chose to focus on one of these traits — snout length — to determine whether raccoons in urban environments that share space with humans might be diverging from their country kin.
—Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
The dogs curled up and jammed their snouts into their haunches, to defend against the wind.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The nightingale turned abruptly, flying to a low bramble just inches from the fox’s snout.
—Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
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Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Dec. 2025
Lesch chose to focus on one of these traits — snout length — to determine whether raccoons in urban environments that share space with humans might be diverging from their country kin.
—Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
The dogs curled up and jammed their snouts into their haunches, to defend against the wind.
—Ben Taub, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The nightingale turned abruptly, flying to a low bramble just inches from the fox’s snout.
—Hazlitt, 19 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for snout
nose
Noun
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Love, give me lips and noses, skin parting tangy skin.—
Carson Colenbaugh,
The Atlantic,
9 Nov. 2025
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To experience it, visitors to the free exhibition don a VR headset outfitted with a scent dispenser that sits over the nose.—
Justin Fenner,
Robb Report,
8 Nov. 2025
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“Snout.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/snout. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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