schnozzle
Britishnoun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of schnozzle
alteration of Yiddish shnoitsl, diminutive of shnoits, from German Schnauze snout
Example Sentences
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But if you wonder why your wine fiend friend arches his eyebrow when he sticks his schnozzle into a glass you just poured, here’s a short primer on the basic categories of bubbly.
From Washington Post
And don’t miss your chance to learn about the star-nosed mole, which boasts a schnozzle “ringed by 22 fleshy appendages that are usually a blur of motion,” writes Kenneth C. Catania of Vanderbilt University.
From Washington Post
“They is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.”
From Washington Post
So desperate is John to stay human that, having met a woman who gets nosebleeds, he keeps banging his own schnozzle to draw blood, and thus to dupe her into accepting him as her equal.
From The New Yorker
He asked Josh to dress in a schoolboy outfit while he attached his elasticated schnozzle and plugged his tail into place.
From The Guardian
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