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- snubbiness noun
Etymology
Origin of snubby
Example Sentences
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Hatchlings have big eyes, snubby little snouts and can fit in the palm of your hand.
From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2022
The snubby nose of the broad-winged aircraft looked as if it had been flattened against the white cliffs of Dover.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the front door stands another Guardian, with one of those snubby machine guns slung over his shoulder.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
She was not at all pretty; her round snubby face was red and she had a bruise on her chin, and yet she was somehow attractive.
From Olive in Italy by Dalton, Moray
They have never found chaste delight in the writing of woeful ballads to their mistress's eyebrows, or to the glorification of their snubby and expansive noses.
From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)
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