[
UK
/snˈuːt/
]
NOUN
- informal terms for the nose
- a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
How To Use snoot In A Sentence
- This kind of coinage and derivation is a typical process in the creative evolution of language, and is exactly the sort of thing that snoots like to deprecate.
- The Beast with a small softbox bounced off a wall to the right and a snooted light in another room to the left. Grilled grin
- When her snooty daughter visits, she is embarrassed by her relative poverty.
- There seemed to be much here to like and little to snoot. SOMETHING IN THE WATER
- There's no point in being overly snooty about it. Times, Sunday Times
- Come on – that group is a mouthpiece not for animal rescue groups – but kennel owners – a snooty subsegment of the dog-breeding industry. Doggone It, Just Get the Puppy Already - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com
- Naomi smiled and the blonde bombshell snootily followed her, without giving a backward glance.
- Opera snobs are terribly snooty about Bocelli's particular brand of "popera" - Time To Say Goodbye, which he does with Sarah Brightman, is possibly the cheesiest song ever to have been recorded - but I imagine that as he sang to the crowd in Central Park, he couldn't have given two hoots. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- Within 18 months, he had fallen in love with a pretty, quick-witted copygirl, Barbara Stone, and after a terrifying, if occasionally thrilling, baptism of snootiness by her family — New Year’s at Arturo Toscanini’s house, a frightening experience with a finger bowl — he married her. The Gelb Family
- There is no real segregation - people are not snooty in Ripon. Times, Sunday Times