Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A short nose that is somewhat flattened and turned up at the end.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A nose turned upward at the tip like that of the pug-dog; a snub-nose.
  • noun The pug-nosed eel. See eel and Simenchelys.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A short, thick nose; a snubnose.
  • (Zoöl.) a deep-water marine eel (Simenchelys parasiticus) which sometimes burrows into the flesh of the halibut.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A short nose which is flattened and whose tip is turned up.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a short nose; flattened and turned up at the end
  • adjective having a blunt nose

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From pug, ape (obsolete), pug.]

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