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  • verb Present participle of snout.

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Examples

  • We raise our own pigs and chickens, and we feed them non-organic goodies including expired bakery goods, but I also know they've been out on grass every day of their lives, pecking and snouting in the dirt.

    Maria Rodale: Visit to My Back Porch: Michael Perry Maria Rodale 2011

  • • Hollow laughter is one response to the dilemmas created by the London-based trough-snouting tendency Dome, Wembley, Olympics, for whom the easy way is always to pour local concrete than to invest in what the country needs.

    Letters: Haringey has given full support to Spurs to stay in Tottenham 2011

  • We raise our own pigs and chickens, and we feed them non-organic goodies including expired bakery goods, but I also know they've been out on grass every day of their lives, pecking and snouting in the dirt.

    Maria Rodale: Visit to My Back Porch: Michael Perry Maria Rodale 2011

  • Emerging early from the snouting dingles of the town at dusk, they went their rounds with impatient efficiency, jogging from house to house like council workers on some lucrative bonus scheme.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Emerging early from the snouting dingles of the town at dusk, they went their rounds with impatient efficiency, jogging from house to house like council workers on some lucrative bonus scheme.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • Mind you it is a bit of a laugh seeing all the Kinnockites on here moaning about gravy trains ... this from the most gravy sodden slices of past its sell by date bread in the history of Labour Party trough snouting.

    Sorry but there has to be better justification for this huge hike Valleys Mam 2008

  • I mean is he actually paid by Plaid to big them up, then get caught trough snouting?

    Touhig cashes in 2008

  • Maybe it'll slow their trough-snouting like peegs.

    Well here's the what they claimed Valleys Mam 2008

  • They're all typical trough snouting committee members and busybodies who have little experience or association with the real world that we, the electorate, inhabit.

    declaration of Interests -MEPs Valleys Mam 2008

  •   “I feel as if the jackal moon had been down here snouting around in an unseemly manner.”

    Son of a Witch Maguire, Gregory 2005

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