ˈbottle-nosed, a.
[f. prec. + -ed.]
Having a bottle nose.
| 1568 Like will to Like in Hazl. Dodsl. III. 311 My dame called thee bottle-nosed knave. 1591 Harington Orl. Fur. xliii. cxxviii, A Gipsen..blab-lipt, beetle-browd, and bottle-nozed. 1863 Buckland Cur. Nat. Hist. Ser. ii. 325 A bottle-nosed whale..cast ashore from the Thames in 1783. 1865 Dickens Mut. Fr. iii, The bottle-nosed regular customer. |