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English
A cow's muzzle (protruding part of animal's head)
A dog wearing a muzzle (sense 3) over its muzzle (sense 1)
bronze horse muzzle (sense 6)
Etymology
From earlier muzle, musle, mousle, mussel, mozell, from Middle English mosel, from Old French musel, museau, muzeau (modern French museau), from Late Latin mūsus (“snout”), probably expressive of the shape of protruded lips and/or influenced by Latin mūgīre (“to moo, bellow”). Doublet of museau. Displaced native Middle English kevel from Old English cæfl (“gag, bit, muzzle”), see English cavel.
Pronunciation
Noun
muzzle (plural muzzles)
- The protruding part of an animal's head which includes the nose, mouth and jaws.
- Synonym: snout
- (slang, derogatory, by extension) A person's mouth.
- A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
- (firearms) The mouth or the end for entrance or discharge of a gun, pistol etc., that the bullet emerges from.
- Coordinate term: breech
- (chiefly Scotland) A piece of the forward end of the plow-beam by which the traces are attached.
- Synonym: bridle
- (obsolete, historical) An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Derived terms
Translations
part of animal's head
- Arabic: خَطْم m (ḵaṭm)
- Armenian: մռութ (hy) (mṙutʻ), դունչ (hy) (dunčʻ), կնճիթ (hy) (knčitʻ) (pigs and boars)
- Belarusian: мо́рда f (mórda)
- Bulgarian: муцуна (bg) f (mucuna)
- Catalan: musell (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 口吻 (zh) (kǒuwěn)
- Czech: čenich (cs) m, čumák (cs) m
- Danish: snude c
- Dutch: snuit (nl) m or f
- Esperanto: muzelo
- Estonian: koon
- Finnish: kuono (fi), turpa (fi)
- French: museau (fr) m
- German: Schnauze (de) f (dogs), Nüster (de) f (horses)
- Greek: ρύγχος (el) n (rýnchos)
- Ancient: ῥύγχος n (rhúnkhos)
- Hungarian: pofa (hu), pofázmány (hu)
- Icelandic: trýni n, múli (is) m, snoppa f, granir (is) f pl
- Ido: muzelo (io), chanfreno (io)
- Ingrian: morda
- Italian: muso (it) m
- Japanese: 鼻面 (はなづら, hanazura)
- Latin: rostrum (la) n
- Low German: Snuut (nds) f
- Macedonian: муцка f (mucka), рилка f (rilka)
- Malay: muncung
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: snute m or f
- Nynorsk: snute m
- Persian: پوزه (fa) (puze)
- Polish: pysk (pl) m, ryj (pl) m, morda (pl) f
- Portuguese: focinho (pt) m, açaime (pt), açaime (pt) m
- Romanian: bot (ro) n
- Russian: мо́рда (ru) f (mórda), ры́ло (ru) n (rýlo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: њу̏шка f, гу̏бица f
- Roman: njȕška (sh) f, gȕbica (sh) f
- Spanish: hocico (es) m
- Swedish: nos (sv) c, mule (sv) c
- Ukrainian: мо́рда f (mórda)
- Venetian: mus (vec) m, muxo m
- Vietnamese: mõm (vi)
- Walloon: muzea (wa) m
- Yiddish: פּיסק m (pisk)
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device to stop an animal from biting
- Arabic:
- Moroccan Arabic: كمّامة f (kemmama)
- Belarusian: намо́рднік m (namórdnik)
- Bulgarian: намо́рдник (bg) m (namórdnik)
- Catalan: morrió (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 口絡/口络 (zh) (kǒuluò)
- Czech: náhubek m
- Dutch: muilband (nl), muilkorf (nl)
- Esperanto: buŝumo (eo)
- Estonian: suukorv
- Finnish: kuonokoppa (fi)
- French: muselière (fr) f
- Galician: vetillo (gl) m, bocal (gl) m, bozo m
- Georgian: სადრუნჩე (sadrunče)
- German: Maulkorb (de) m
- Greek: φίμωτρο (el) n (fímotro)
- Ancient: φιμός m (phimós), κημός m (kēmós)
- Hebrew: מַחְסוֹם (he) m (maẖsóm), זְמָם (he) m (zmám)
- Hungarian: szájkosár (hu)
- Icelandic: múll (is) m, bitmúli m, mýli n, munnkarfa f
- Ido: muzeloligilo (io)
- Irish: béalóg f, musal m, mantóg f
- Italian: museruola (it) f, mordacchia (it) f
- Japanese: 口輪 (くちわ, kuchiwa)
- Khakas: пурғах (purğax)
- Macedonian: нарилник m (narilnik)
- Maori: mōkā, mokonaha, pōnīnī
- Persian: پوزهبند (fa) (puze-band)
- Polish: kaganiec (pl) m
- Portuguese: focinheira (pt) f
- Russian: намо́рдник (ru) m (namórdnik)
- Scottish Gaelic: glas-ghuib f
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бр̏њица f
- Roman: bȑnjica (sh) f
- Sicilian: mussili (scn) m, vuccagghiu m
- Slovak: náhubok m
- Spanish: bozal m
- Swedish: munkorg (sv)
- Turkish: burunsalık (tr), burunsak (tr), burunluk (tr), ağızlık (tr)
- Ukrainian: намо́рдник m (namórdnyk)
- Vietnamese: rọ mõm (vi)
- Walloon: muzlire (wa) f
- Welsh: mwsel m, penwar m
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Translations to be checked
Verb
muzzle (third-person singular simple present muzzles, present participle muzzling, simple past and past participle muzzled)
- (transitive) To bind or confine an animal's mouth by putting a muzzle, as to prevent it from eating or biting.
- (transitive, figuratively) To restrain (from speaking, expressing opinion or acting); to gag; to silence; to censor.
Those who want to muzzle everyone else are likely nothing less than pseudovirtuous.
- (transitive, obsolete) To veil, mask, muffle.
- (transitive, obsolete) To fondle with the closed mouth; to nuzzle.
- (intransitive) To bring the muzzle or mouth near.
Derived terms
Translations
to restrain from speaking or acting
- Dutch: muilkorven (nl)
- Esperanto: silentigi
- Finnish: (speaking) tukkia (fi), (acting) estää (fi)
- French: museler (fr)
- German: jemandem einen Maulkorb verpassen (de)
- Icelandic: þagga niður í, múlbinda
- Ido: bokoligar, bokostopar (io)
- Italian: imbavagliare (it), mettere a tacere
- Macedonian: затнува (zatnuva)
- Norwegian: gi (no), få (no) munnkurv
- Polish: nakładać kaganiec impf, nałożyć kaganiec pf
- Portuguese: amordaçar (pt)
- Spanish: (speaking) amordazar (es), censurar (es), (acting) atar (es), limitar (es)
- Swedish: sätta munkavle på, tysta ner (sv)
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