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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
snub-nosed
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All bore a distinct snub-nosed family resemblance to one another.
▪ He was a snub-nosed little fellow in a grubby shirt, with an infectious smile.
▪ The snub-nosed revolver looked like a toy in Ray Shepherd's hand.
▪ The drill itself is a different shape to most models, having a long slender handle and snub-nosed body.
▪ The other two Zimbalan bodyguards immediately drew their snub-nosed Smith & Wesson.38s and sprinted after the fleeing gunman.
▪ Tunney had his Richie Quick snub-nosed automatic out.
▪ Two snub-nosed bristle-headed boys were looking over my shoulder in bright-eyed interest.
▪ When he took off his dented helmet he proved to have bristly fair hair above a snub-nosed face.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Snub-nosed

Snub-nosed \Snub"-nosed`\, a. Having a short, flat nose, slightly turned up; as, the snub-nosed eel.

Snub-nosed cachalot (Zo["o]l.), the pygmy sperm whale.

Wiktionary
snub-nosed

a. Having a nose that is short and turned upward at the tip. alt. Having a nose that is short and turned upward at the tip.

WordNet
snub-nosed

adj. having a blunt nose; "a pug-nosed boy with freckles"; "a snub-nosed automatic" [syn: pug-nosed, pug-nose]

Usage examples of "snub-nosed".

She seemed to like me middling tolerable, but I had rivals, notably a snub-nosed Arizona waddy by the name of Bizz Ridgeway.

Centennial, a snub-nosed hammerless revolver with a grip safety-catch.

This boy was red-haired, freckle-faced and snub-nosed, and he looked jollier than the other two put together, if that were possible, for his red hair curled in saucy, tight little ringlets, and his mouth was wide with smiles.

He put it down upon the cover of a jar in which there lay one of the finest asps he had ever seen, thick, venomous, snub-nosed, coiled down in spirits of wine, with its slit-pupilled eye looking at him through the glass.

The child there was snub-nosed, dimpled and too prissily dear to be believed.

The snub-nosed stems with the blunt attempt at the clipper bow where it was shaped to take the bowsprit, the fat buxom hulls and the squares'l yard trimmed to the quartering wind.

The most widely used commercial vessels of a bygone era-and long afterward-ED-4s had the snub-nosed bow and elongated, teardrop hull that characterized a whole generation of starships, Their flight bridges with old-fashioned V-shaped Hyperscreens forward were faired smoothly into the top of their hulls, and large side ports gave them the frowning, raptorlike countenance that whole generations of children associated with the romance of starflight.

At the moment he wore a black Stetson over his temporarily dyed black hair, had fake face fur that itched like fire ants, and a snub-nosed thirty-eight in his boot holster.

Something else had invaded the morning air of the ice worlda relatively small, snub-nosed craft, with dark cockpit windows and laser guns mounted on each side.

The jokes ranged from oodles of noodles to snub-nosed Pekingese poodles and on to Peking man, and if we didn't laugh enough, Billy explained the reference to us.

He took out the snub-nosed automatic with the silencer, checked it and clicked off the safety catch.

The truck, one of the snub-nosed, box-shaped trucks that specialized in soft ice cream, was just pulling out, its bells jangling.

The Secretary, snub-nosed and wry-faced, preferred a short word to a long one, a grunt to a word, and silence to, a grunt-at least in.

The Secretary, snub-nosed and wry-faced, preferred a short word to a long one, a grunt to a word, and silence to a grunt--at least in public.

The Secretary, snub-nosed and wry-faced, preferred a short word to a long one, a grunt to a word, and silence to a grunt - at least in public.