7 letters · 30 points in Scrabble
originLikely from Yiddish שנויץ (shnoyts), cognate to German Schnauze (“snout”) and English snout. Compare schnozzle. A less common theory suggests a variant of nose influenced by schm-, or by general association with Yiddish words. Attested since at least 1940.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0