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snouty, a.|ˈsnaʊtɪ|
[f. snout n.1]
1. Resembling a snout or muzzle; having a pronounced or prominent snout.
a1685Otway Compl. Muse xii, The Nose was ugly, long, and big, Broad, and snowty like a Pig. 1863Huxley Man's Place in Nature iii. 147 The skull..is called ‘prognathous’; a term which has been rendered, with more force than elegance, by the Saxon equivalent ‘snouty’. 1880G. Meredith Tragic Com. iii. (1892) 25 The hairy, hoofy, snouty evil one.
2. colloq. Overbearing; insolent.
1858Times 29 Nov., Her manner was so domineering that he could not imagine she was his wife:—her manner was perfectly ‘snouty’. |