schnozz

英语

其他形式

• schnoz
• shnoz

词源

可能借自意第緒語 שנויץ (shnoyts)，其源自德語 Schnauze (“鼻子”)。对比schnozzle。另一较少见理论认为其是一个受到schm-的影响或者和意第绪语单词联想而得到的nose的变体。至少1940年起已可考。

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名词

schnozz (複數 schnozzes)

1. (俚語) 鼻子

   近義詞： 參見Thesaurus:nose

   • 1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint, New York: Vintage, 1994, pp. 149-150,^[2]

     […] you have got J-E-W written right across the middle of that face—look at the shnoz on him, for God’s sakes!

   • 1993 3月 5, Adam Langer, “Sex Lives of Superheroes/Subfertile”, 出自 The Chicago Reader‎^[3]:

     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.

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   • 1998 6月 26, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, 出自 The Chicago Reader‎^[4]:

     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.

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   • 1999 11月 5, Carl Zimmer, “Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: The Stories Behind the Bones”, 出自 Science‎^[5], 卷 286, 期 5442, →DOI, →ISSN，頁號s 1071-1074:

     In another talk, a DinoNose collaborator, Scott Sampson of the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, pointed out a number of ridges in the ceratopsian schnozz that probably supported curtains of cartilage; these in turn may have served as scaffolding for layers upon layers of mucous membranes.

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