snub nose
Also snub-nose.
[f. snub v.1 3. Cf. Norw. dial. snubbnos (Ross).]
A short stumpy nose turned up and flattened at the tip.
| 1724 Lond. Gaz. No. 6251/3 He is a thick-set Boy, with a snub Nose. 1793 Holcroft tr. Lavater's Physiog. xvii. 87 [I know] the Russians by the snub nose. 1818 Byron Juan i. clx, With prying snub-nose, and small eyes, he stood, Following Antonia's motions. 1838 Barham Ser. i. Hand of Glory (1905) 28 The very snore froze, In his very snub nose. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) IV. 235 He has a snub nose, and projecting eyes. |
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Add: 2. slang (chiefly U.S.). A snub-nosed handgun; = *snubby n.
| 1979 Washington Post 8 Nov. f1/5 A .38-caliber snub nose, department issue, rests on his hip, beneath his jacket. 1982 B. Fantoni Stickman xxii. 151, I pulled out my gun... Flicking the safety catch off my snub nose, I tensed my trigger finger. 1988 Guns & Weapons Winter 76/2 The .38 snubnose or .45 automatic that many people think of when they hear the word ‘handgun’. |