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snoot | Word of the Day
August 23, 2019
snoot
[snoot]
verb (used with object)
1.
to behave disdainfully toward; condescend to:
New arrivals in the town were snooted by older residents.
noun
1.
the nose.
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snoot
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QUOTES
"I happen to be one of those people who knows what they're talking about," he
snoots
. The ghastly oil paintings in Rae Smith's design suggest otherwise.
-- Matt Trueman, "London Theater Review: David Hare's 'The Moderate Soprano',"
Variety
, October 30, 2015
ORIGIN
The English noun
snoot
is a Scottish variant of
snout
"the nose, muzzle."
Snout
and
snoot
are akin to Middle Low German and Middle Dutch
snute
, German
Schnauze
, and more remotely to Old English
gesnot
"nasal mucus" (English
snot
), Middle Low German and Middle Dutch
snotte
, and German
schneuzen
"to blow one's nose." The verb
snoot
"to behave disdainfully toward; condescend to," a derivative of the noun
snoot
, is an Americanism dating only to the late 1920s. The noun
snoot
entered English in the early 1860s.
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