pug nose, pug-nose
(ˈpʌgˈnəʊz)
[f. pug n.2 6 or 7 + nose n.]
A short nose with a wide base sloping upward; a short squat or snub nose.
| 1778 F. Burney Evelina xxiii. (1791) I. 132 Perhaps, you may persuade her that her pug nose is all the fashion. 1826 Disraeli Viv. Grey i. iv, A pallid wretch with a pug nose..and marked with the small-pox. 1840 [see pug n.2 7 a]. 1860 Emerson Cond. Life, Fate Wks. (Bohn) II. 311 A squint, a pug-nose, mats of hair,..betray character. |
Hence pug-nosed (ˈpʌgˌnəʊzd) a., having a short snub nose; whence pugˈnosedness.
pug-nosed (pug-nose) eel, a deep-sea species of eel, Simenchelys parasiticus, found off the Newfoundland bank, having a short and blunt snout.
| 1834 Oxf. Univ. Mag. I. 39, I well remember Gibbon, a heavy pugnosed fellow. 1845 Maurice Mor. & Met. Philos. (1850) I. vi. iii. v. 186 It is obvious also that all notions of an ideal form of hollowness or of pugnosedness (we use Aristotle's favourite illustration) must be out of the question. 1888 Goode Amer. Fishes 232 The Horse-fish..was called by De Kay ‘Blunt-nosed Shiner’...This name, sometimes varied to ‘Pugnosed Shiner’ [etc.]. |