English Dictionary

snoot

IPA（発音記号）

/snuːt/

名詞

くだけた表現 インターネット 幼児語 ユーモラス文体 俗語

(informal) An elitist individual; one who looks down upon lower social classes. / A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism.

日本語の意味

エリート主義者；上流階級または社会的に上位の人々を見下す人 / 言語に関して過度なこだわりを示し、他者を批判する人（言語狩りをする人）

Even at the gallery opening, he acted like a snoot, criticizing everyone's taste.

ギャラリーのオープニングでも彼はまるでお高くとまった人のように振る舞い、皆の趣味を批判していた。

意味（1）

(informal) An elitist individual; one who looks down upon lower social classes.

The sidecars— sneer if you will, you purists and gastronomic snoots— at Perino's in Wilshire in Los Angeles.

意味（2）

A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism.

意味（3）

(dialectal or slang) A nose or snout, especially in derogatory use.

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!

意味（4）

(Internet slang, childish, humorous) Snout; especially of a dog ("doggo"), cat ("catto"), or snake ("snek").

意味（5）

(theater, photography) 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.

snoots （ plural ）