schnozz

英語

其他形式

• schnoz
• shnoz

詞源

可能借自意第緒語 שנויץ (shnoyts)，其源自德語 Schnauze (「鼻子」)。對比schnozzle。另一較少見理論認為其是一個受到schm-的影響或者和意第緒語單詞聯想而得到的nose的變體。至少1940年起已可考。

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名詞

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年3月5日, 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年6月26日, 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年11月5日, Carl Zimmer, 「Society of Vertebrate Paleontology: The Stories Behind the Bones」, 出自 Science‎^[5], 第 286 卷, 第 5442 期, →DOI, →ISSN，第 1071-1074 頁s:

     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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