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- Yiddish · borrowed fromשנויץ“snout”
- English todayschnozzle
Probably from Yiddish שנויץ (shnoyts, “snout”), cognate to German Schnauze (“snout, muzzle”) and English snout. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests the word may be pseudo-Yiddish coined in English. Attested since 1930.
Words from the same roots
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.