subs. (colloquial).—1. The nose: in contempt. 2. = the face: also SNOUT-PIECE (GROSE); SNOUT-FAIR = pretty, comely (HARMAN and GROSE).
c. 1610. The Masque of the Twelve Months. How. What? Lady Piggwiggin, th’ only SNOUTFAIRE of the fairies.
1621. BURTON, The Anatomy of Melancholy, III. III. iv. 2. A modest Virgin, well-conditioned, to such a fair SNOUT-PIECE, is much to be preferred. Ibid., III. III. i. 2. He that marries a wife that is SNOWY FAIR [? SNOUT FAIR] alone, let him …
1653. R. BROME, The Court Beggar, ii. 1 Shee be SNOUT-FAIRE, and has some wit.
1663. BUTLER, Hudibras, I. iii. 357. But all in vain; her subtle SNOUT Did quickly wind his meaning out.
2. (prison).—Tobacco: see WRIGHT and TRAFFICKING; also (itinerants’) a cigar.
