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schnozz

noun
/ʃnɒz/UK/ʃnɑz/US

Etymology

Likely from Yiddish שנויץ (shnoyts), cognate to German Schnauze (“snout”) and English snout. Compare schnozzle. A less common theory suggests a variant of nose influenced by schm-, or by general association with Yiddish words. Attested since at least 1940.

  1. borrowed from שנויץ

Definitions

  1. Nose.

    • […] you have got J-E-W written right across the middle of that face—look at the shnoz on him, for God’s sakes!
    • There's a TV commercial out now for a nasal spray in which a man in need of a decongestant wakes up to find that his entire head has turned into a giant schnozz.
    • One presumes the anesthetic is for the bull, although if I were about to pound a nail through some bull's schnozz I might want some anesthetic myself.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for schnozz. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA