Definition of Pug-nosed

1. Adjective. Having a blunt nose. "A snub-nosed automatic"

Exact synonyms: Pug-nose, Short-nosed, Snub-nosed
Similar to: Nosed

Definition of Pug-nosed

1. Adjective. Having a pug nose; with a short nose which is flattened and whose tip is turned up. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pug-nosed

puffing
puffing up
puffingly
puffings
puffinries
puffinry
puffins
puffs
puffs up
puffy
puftaloon
puftaloons
pug
pug-dog
pug-nose
pug-nosed (current term)
pug nose
pugaree
pugarees
puggaree
puggarees
pugged
pugger
puggeries
puggery
puggie
puggier
puggies
puggiest
pugginess

Literary usage of Pug-nosed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Zoological Society of London (1867)
"Dr. W. Lockhart has kindly presented to the British Museum the skull with the atlas vertebra attached, and the penis bone, of a " Chinese pug-nosed Lap-dog, ..."

2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... called her a pug-nosed puppet; but I, as her chronicler, deny that she was pug-nosed, — and all the world who knew her soon came to understand that she ..."

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