Also snub-nose. [f. SNUB v.1 3. Cf. Norw. dial. snubbnos (Ross).] A short stumpy nose turned up and flattened at the tip.

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1724.  Lond. Gaz., No. 6251/3. He is a thick-set Boy, with a snub Nose.

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1793.  Holcroft, trans. Lavater’s Physiog., xvii. 87. [I know] the Russians by the snub nose.

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1818.  Byron, Juan, I. clx. With prying snub-nose, and small eyes, he stood, Following Antonia’s motions.

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1838.  Barham, Ser. I. Hand of Glory (1905), 28. The very snore froze, In his very snub nose.

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1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), IV. 235. He has a snub nose, and projecting eyes.

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