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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