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Snub-nosed   /snəb-noʊzd/   Listen
adjective
Snub-nosed  adj.  Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub-nosed eel.
Snub-nosed cachalot (Zool.), the pygmy sperm whale.






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"Snub-nosed" Quotes from Famous Books



... door was something slim in a short silver sheath. It had golden bangs and the haughtiest snub-nosed face in the world. It slunk ...
— The Creature from Cleveland Depths • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... of an age to produce, rather than past breeding; that they are well set up, clean limbed, square bodied, large, with black horns and broad brows, large black eyes, hairy ears, flat cheek bones, snub-nosed, not hump-backed but rather with the back bone slightly roached, wide nostrils, blackish lips, a neck muscular and long with dew laps hanging from it, the barrel large and well ribbed, the shoulders broad and the quarters good, a tail sweeping ...
— Roman Farm Management - The Treatises Of Cato And Varro • Marcus Porcius Cato

... nose. So he turned and walked slowly to his temporary headquarters in the station agent's office, but to find that the young captain left in command by Colonel Wray had made himself at home and was issuing orders to a snub-nosed lieutenant. ...
— The Short Line War • Merwin-Webster

... hat in hand, and bowed as he stood on the threshold. He was a very short man—snub-nosed; rusty-whiskered; indubitably and unimpressively a cockney in appearance. He might have walked out of ...
— At a Winter's Fire • Bernard Edward J. Capes

... "pudgy"—her own expression—red-haired and freckled-faced and snub-nosed. Her eyes redeemed much of this personal handicap, for they were big and blue as turquoises and as merry and innocent in expression as the eyes of a child. Also, the good humor which usually pervaded her sunny features led people to ignore their plainness. In dress, ...
— Mary Louise and the Liberty Girls • Edith Van Dyne (AKA L. Frank Baum)


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