snub-nosed
Americanadjective
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having a snub nose.
a snub-nosed child.
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having a blunt end.
snub-nosed pliers.
adjective
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having a short turned-up nose
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(of a pistol) having an extremely short barrel
Etymology
Origin of snub-nosed
First recorded in 1715–25
Example Sentences
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Other popular members of this snub-nosed club include English bulldogs, Boston terriers, pugs and Brussels griffons.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025
The Pearl darter is a small, snub-nosed fish with a black spot at the base of its tail fin.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 7, 2023
The stubbornly disheveled, snub-nosed 11-year-old protagonist of the writer Richmal Crompton’s wildly popular “Just William” stories, 100 this year, is an astutely rendered portrait of a 1920s British schoolboy.
From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2022
The space world has a little engine that could — a small, snub-nosed space plane called Dream Chaser that looks like it could be the space shuttle’s offspring.
From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021
The first time I visited, he picked me up in his car, a snub-nosed, banana-yellow Datsun he’d bought used on his loan-strapped student budget.
From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama
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