a. [f. SNOUT sb.1]

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  1.  Resembling a snout or muzzle; having a pronounced or prominent snout.

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a. 1685.  Otway, Compl. Muse, xii. The Nose was ugly, long, and big, Broad, and snowty like a Pig.

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1863.  Huxley, 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.’

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1880.  G. Meredith, Tragic Com., iii. (1892), 25. The hairy, hoofy, snouty evil one.

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  2.  colloq. Overbearing; insolent.

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1858.  Times, 29 Nov., 9/4. Her manner was so domineering that he could not imagine she was his wife—her manner was perfectly ‘snouty.’

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