a. [f. SNOUT sb.1]
1. Resembling a snout or muzzle; having a pronounced or prominent snout.
a. 1685. Otway, Compl. Muse, xii. The Nose was ugly, long, and big, Broad, and snowty like a Pig.
1863. Huxley, Mans 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.
1880. G. Meredith, Tragic Com., iii. (1892), 25. The hairy, hoofy, snouty evil one.
2. colloq. Overbearing; insolent.
1858. Times, 29 Nov., 9/4. Her manner was so domineering that he could not imagine she was his wifeher manner was perfectly snouty.