muzz
9.9
The front part of an animal's head with the nose and mouth, like a dog's
- noun
- /mʌz/
- Archaic
:
hocico
- After a long hike, we stopped to admire the muzz of the bear in the woods.
Examples
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Her baby brother made funny faces, and his muzz was covered in chocolate.
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We need to move the muzz and racists in this country soon.
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With little noticeable effort, the muzz in this country have successfully surrounded themselves with human shields!
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The dog had a cute little muzz that twitched whenever it sniffed the ground.
Synonyms
9.9
A word people use for mouth in northern England and Scotland
is an older dialectal term for an animal snout or face rather than human mouth
Surface Forms
Etymology
Muzz is an old or dialect form of muzzle, from words that meant 'mouth' or 'snout'. So imagine a dog pushing its muzz against the window to remember it means an animal's mouth or snout.
