spitzyadj.
/ˈspɪtsi/ Resembling or pertaining to a Spitz dog. Also figurative, pointed.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > other types of dog > [adjective] > of other types
Pyrenean1845
Pekinese1898
spitzy1937
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [adjective] > types of nose
cammed?c1350
camoisc1380
snatteda1387
camoisedc1515
flat1560
hawked1577
rising1606
simous1634
aquiline1646
Roman1665
snoutya1685
suspense1697
rhinocerical1710
rhinocerotic1755
Bardolphian1756
cock-up1763
bridgeless1772
retroussé1802
snubbed1802
snubbish1828
snubby1828
snipish1834
snub1843
pugged1847
puggisha1849
tip-tilted1872
saddleback1897
beak-sharp1933
spitzy1968
1937 W. H. Auden & L. MacNeice Lett. from Iceland xii. 185 A sort of little sheepdog, black and white with a thick but not very long coat, a broad forehead and a spitzy foreface.
1952 C. L. B. Hubbard Pembrokeshire Corgi Handbk. i. 14 The extremely sharp-pointed tips to the ears prevalent in the more Spitzy Pembrokeshires.
1968 Sunday Truth (Brisbane) 3 Nov. 58/4 He had a ‘spitzy nose’—a sharp nose—a scar on his left arm where he had been hurt by machinery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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