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snub-nosed

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snub-nosed (snbnzd)
adj.
1. Having a short, turned-up nose.
2. Having an extremely short barrel: a snub-nosed pistol.
snub-nosed
adj
1. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Anatomy) having a short turned-up nose
2. (Military / Firearms, Gunnery, Ordnance & Artillery) (of a pistol) having an extremely short barrel
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.snub-nosed - having a blunt nose; "a pug-nosed boy with freckles"; "a snub-nosed automatic"
pug-nose, pug-nosed, short-nosed
nosed - having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind
Translations
snub-nosed [ˈsnʌbˈnəʊzd] ADJ → chato, ñato(LAm)
snub-nosed [ˌsnʌbˈnəʊzd] adj → con il naso a patata or patatina
snub-nosed [ˌsnʌbˈnəʊzd] adj → con il naso a patata or patatina


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A red-haired, swine-jowled, snub-nosed, crooked lout, he is for ever wrangling with Theresa, until the pair nearly come to blows.
Poor Folk by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
He was a snub-nosed, flat-browed, common-faced boy enough; and as dirty a juvenile as one would wish to see; but he had about him all the airs and manners of a man.
Oliver Twist Or The Parish Boy's Progress by Dickens, Charles View in context
Bute said to her eldest girl (who, on the contrary, was a very swarthy, short, and snub-nosed young lady), "You might have had superb diamonds forsooth, and have been presented at Court by your cousin, the Lady Jane.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
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