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Snub-nosed. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1919, rev. 2025. Snub-nosed a. [f. as prec.] Having a snub nose.

1 1725.  Bailey, Erasm. Colloq. (1878), I. 44. Can you fancy that … Snub-nos’d, Sparrow-mouth’d, Paunch-belly’d Creature?

2 1758.  Ann. Reg., Poetry, 439. A snub-nos’d dog to fat inclin’d.

3 1775.  Sheridan, Duenna, II. ii. I was taught to believe you a little black, snub-nosed fellow.

4 1833.  Marryat, P. Simple (1863), 187. The lieutenant, who was a little snub-nosed man, with a pimply face.

5 1882.  T. Hodgkin, in Macm. Mag., XLVI. 126/1. He should make us forget the extreme vulgarity of the snub-nosed effigy on his coins.

6   b.  In specific names (see quots.).

7 c. 1880.  Cassell’s Nat. Hist., II. 255. The Short-headed Whale, or Snub-nosed Cachalot.

8 1884.  Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 807. S[imorhynchus] cristatellus,… Snub-nosed Auk.

9 1891.  Cent. Dict., s.v. Simenchelys, S. parasiticus, the only species, is known as the pug-nosed or snub-nosed eel.

10   Hence Snub-nosedness.

11 1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), IV. 228. The snubnosedness of Theaetetus … is characteristic both of him and Socrates.

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