1. A person with pretensions to high social status and who looks down on people they think are beneath them
   "The snoot refused to associate with anyone he deemed 'common'";
   - snob, prig
    
2. The organ of smell and entrance to the respiratory tract; the prominent part of the face of man or other mammals
   "he has a cold in the snoot";
   - nose, olfactory organ, beak [informal], honker [informal], hooter [informal], nozzle [informal], snout [informal], schnozzle [informal], schnoz [informal], conk [Brit, informal]

Derived forms: snoots

Type of: chemoreceptor, disagreeable person, unpleasant person

Part of: face, human face, upper respiratory tract

Encyclopedia: Snoot