Green’s Dictionary of Slang

schnozzle n.

the nose.

1929		S.J. Perelman in Marschall That Old Gang o’ Mine (1984) 79: A sturdy tin mudguard to hook onto her schnozzle when she goes peering through portieres.
1935		G.T. Fleming-Roberts ‘Snatch Bait’ in Ten Detective Aces Oct. 🌐 But not telling me is worth a punch on the schnozzle.
1938		W. Winchell On Broadway 15 Mar. [synd. col.] Too much schnozz gab cost Durante a slump.
1938		H.M. Anderson Strip Tease 29: Margie had a plastic done on her nose [...] Rose visited a surgeon who fixed up her own schnozz.
1944		E. Wilson 27 July [synd. col.] She can look at any lady’s schnozz, tell whether it’s her own or a ‘job,’ and if it’s a ‘job,’ state which doctor bobbed it.
1946		D. Stivens Courtship of Uncle Henry 150: Put it in your schnozzle, brother, the name of the joint was Woolgoolie.
1947		B. Schulberg Harder They Fall (1971) 218: The high-bridged, Roman schnoz pushed into his face.
1958		A. King Mine Enemy Grows Older (1959) 77: What do you mean Jews? [...] Am I going to put big schnozzles on them and earlocks, or what?
1959		H. Ellison ‘Have Coolth’ in Gentleman Junkie (1961) 128: Cyrano and Derry Maylor were blood brothers in the Frat of the Schnozz.
1966		J. Holledge Great Aust. Gamble 10: It was the same gambling spirit that prompted the Kalgoorlie miners, Fred Mapletoft and Ike (‘Schnozzle’) Sheiles, to bet on their ability to roll peanuts with their noses for three miles.
1968		P. Barnes Ruling Class II iii: You’ve stuck your aristocratic schnozzle into my affairs for the last time. Right?
1970		T. Southern Blue Movie (1974) 248: ‘Go fuck yourself, buster!’ Sid roared [and] gave him a straight shot to the shnoz.
1985		S. Berkoff West in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 104: A score of broken bones and busted shnozzles was the price we paid by being unprepared.
1989		C. Hiaasen Skin Tight 24: Good reason to get the old schnoz bobbed.
1994		G. Indiana Rent Boy 99: Six lines of coke up my schnozz.
1995		J. Stahl Permanent Midnight 280: After his mutant shnoz speech [...] I’d forgotten I was there.
1999		Indep. Rev. 4 Oct. 8: ‘Schnozzle?’ Jimmy ‘Schnozzle’ Durante! Of course!
1999		Indep. on Sun. Rev. 12 Dec. 49: Did she like to get her schnozzer into some nice big kneidlach?
2000		Indep. Rev. 20 May 20: There is a scratch’n’sniff meal later on. Mrs W and I dutifully applied our schnozzles to fresh tomato soup, herb-crusted cod and caramelised pineapple.
2000		N. Griffiths Grits 455: A snawt a couple lines — coke mixed wiv bill. Well rough on me fuckin shnozz like.
2006		P. Carey Theft 110: A sergeant with a huge schnozz.
2008		T. Piccirilli Fever Kill 58: The busted schnoz weaving across his face.
2011		Camden New Jrnl Review 24 Mar. 9/6: He goes about the mountains and uses his shnozzer to detect wafts of ancient cave-air.
2012		E. Kurtz ‘In the Neighborhood’ in ThugLit Dec. [ebook] [P]oor Jake and his flattened schnozz.
2018		(con. 1963) L. Berney November Road 226: The man sitting behind the desk had a world-class schnoz.
2023		New York Rev. Bks 9 Feb. 🌐 The glasses on his schnoz signal the lack of masculinity and an inability to follow the socialist dogma.