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Literally, “snout-mouse”.
- IPA(key): /ˈʃnɔɪ̯t͡sˌmɔɪ̯z/
- Hyphenation: שנויץ־מויז
שנויץ־מויז • (shnoyts-moyz) f, plural שנויץ־מײַז (shnoyts-mayz)
- desman
- Paul Abelson (1915) “desman”, in English-Yiddish Encyclopedic Dictionary, New York: The Jewish Press, page 356