pugnozzlev.
/ˈpʌɡnɒzl/, U.S. /ˈpəɡˌnɑz(ə)l/ intransitive. Of the upper lip and nostrils: to move up and down in the manner of a pug dog.Apparently an isolated use.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > lower part of face > [verb (intransitive)] > move like dog
pugnozzle1934
1934 S. Beckett More Pricks than Kicks 257 The wretched little wet rag of an upper lip, pugnozzling up and back in what you might call a kind of a duck or a cobra sneer to the nostrils.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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v.1934- cut the score
- cut the throat of
- cut the throttle
- cut the umbilical cord
- cut things fine
- cut to a thread
- cut to a thread between
- cut to pieces
- cut to ribbons
- cut to the chase
- cut to the heart
- cut to waste
- cut two ways
- cut under
- cut up
- cut up by the roots
- cut up carlicues
- cut up curlicues
- cut up didoes
- cut up fat
- cut up monkeyshines
- cut up old touches
- cut up rough, rusty, savage
- cut up short
- cut up touches