snoot

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An elitist or snobbish person. informal
    — The sidecars— sneer if you will, you purists and gastronomic snoots— at Perino's in Wilshire in Los Angeles.
  2. A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism.
    — There are lots of epithets for people like this—Grammar Nazis, Usage Nerds, Syntax Snobs, the Language Police. The term I was raised with is SNOOT.
  3. A nose or snout. derogatory,dialectal,slang
    — And then he did something which must be unprecedented in jurisprudence. He leaped from his chair, ran over to the old man, and shaking his fist under his nose, roared: 'Listen, you! If you keep on with this stuff, I'll punch you one in the snoot!
  4. Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo"), cat ("catto"), or snake ("snek"). Internet,childish,humorous
  5. A cylindrical or conical attachment used on a spotlight to restrict spill light.
    — Snoots have traditionally been round in shape when attached to studio strobes, but with flash photography, they have taken on a more rectangular shape because the flash heads are rectangular.
动词 v.
  1. To behave disdainfully toward someone.
  2. To apply a snoot attachment to (a light). transitive
    — Which might mean shaping it, gelling it, snooting it, barn dooring it, and putting it on a stand or a clamp. Maybe taking the dome diffuser off. Perhaps zooming it. Oh my. And you thought you were just taking a picture.

词形变化

snoots plural snoots present,singular,third-person snooting participle,present snooted participle,past snooted past

词汇关系

衍生词
droop snoot snooter
相关词
snootful snooty

词源

词源 1
From Scots snoot, snout (“snout”), from Middle English snowte, from Middle Dutch snute; ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Doublet of snout.
词源 2
From Scots snoot, snout (“snout”), from Middle English snowte, from Middle Dutch snute; ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Doublet of snout.
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