单词 | snub-nosed |
释义 | snub-nosedadj. 1. a. Having a snub nose. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [adjective] > types of nose > having cammed?c1350 camoised1393 nosed?1440 hook-nosed1519 snat-nosed1519 flat-nosed1530 bottle-nosed1566 chamoy-nosed1598 saddle-nosed1598 swine-snouted1600 camois-nosed1601 round-nosed1611 nosy1620 flat-nose1636 simous1656 sharp-nosed1675 tutty-nosed1681 Roman-nosed1688 snut-nosed1706 snub-nosed1725 camois1745 blunt-nosed1772 pug-nosed1788 snipy1825 button-nosed1830 nip-nosed1831 leptorrhinian1878 leptorrhine1880 snub1883 knob-nosed1886 long-nose1896 Tartar-nosed1897 Ally Sloper1901 beaky-nosed1923 1725 N. Bailey tr. Erasmus All Familiar Colloquies 18 Can you fancy that..Snub-nos'd, Sparrow-mouth'd, Paunch-belly'd Creature. 1759 Ann. Reg. 1758 440 A snub-nos'd dog to fat inclin'd. 1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 35 I was taught to believe you a little black snub-nosed fellow. 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. vii. 100 The lieutenant, who was a little snub-nosed man, with a pimply face. 1882 Macmillan's Mag. 46 126 The snub-nosed effigy on his coins. b. In specific names (see quots.). ΚΠ c1880 Cassell's Nat. Hist. II. 255 The Short-headed Whale, or Snub-nosed Cachalot. 1884 E. Coues Key to N. Amer. Birds (ed. 2) 807 Simorhynchus cristatellus,..Snub-nosed Auk. 1891 Cent. Dict. at Simenchelys S. parasiticus, the only species, is known as the pug-nosed or snub-nosed eel. 2. figurative. Stumpy; short and broad at the front; abbreviated. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > condition of being short and thick or broad > [adjective] > at the front snub-nosed1925 1925 F. S. Fitzgerald Great Gatsby i. 9 A snub-nosed motor-boat..bumped the tide offshore. 1961 Webster's 3rd New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) A snub-nosed revolver. E. S. Gardner. 1963 Times 5 Feb. 7/5 These snub-nosed,..two-stroke machines. 1966 P. O'Donnell Sabre-tooth x. 137 A Smith & Wesson Centennial, a snub-nosed hammerless revolver. 1978 S. Sheldon Bloodline l. 405 Others carried snub-nosed tear gas rifles. Derivatives ˈsnub-ˌnosedness n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [noun] > types of nose > condition of having cammednessc1440 noseness1598 simity1650 simosity1721 snubbiness1828 pugnosednessa1832 snubbishness1848 snub-nosedness1875 1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) IV. 228 The snubnosedness of Theaetetus..is characteristic both of him and Socrates. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < adj.1725 |
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