shnoz

shnoz

slang A nose. Originally from Yiddish. I think I broke my schnoz when I fell off my bike. Wow, would you look at the size of that guy's schnoz?
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • schnozz
  • shnozz
  • schnozzle
  • schnozzola
  • shmaltzy
  • schmaltzy
  • chotchke
  • schmoose
  • schmooze
  • shmooze
References in periodicals archive
Or to stick our shnoz in a woolly mammoth carcass to see if it's past its sell-by date.
The whole earth is a splayed carcass exposed to plain sight." Another time, in a moment of weakness, I asked him amid the bedlam of the beit midrash, "Fonfen ...?" meaning, "So, Yahoodie, did God make me?" But I was overheard by Reb Gargl, our treble-chinned melammed with his knockwurst shnoz, his ritual garment stained with borscht or blood, who was also a seasoned interpreter of my hobbled speech.
It's the looong big shnoz me look chubbier If it's a woman, I am flattered, because they always say it with such affection.
It's the curly hair, the looong face and the big shnoz that make me look like SJP's chubbier sister.