snoot
- n a person regarded as arrogant and annoying
- n informal terms for the nose
- And cock a snoot at the mainland ? Doesn't that hurt the feeling of Chinese royally ? When will the Chinese Foreign Ministry issue a protest against such rubbish ?.
- Contralto Marie Powers once threatened to clout her in the snoot, and had to be restrained from doing so.
- To open staid, conservative news organs and find the nose of the King-Emperor repeatedly referred to as a "snoot" has given Londoners a delicious, titillating thrill of sacrilege.