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- adjective Alternative form of
pug-nosed .
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Examples
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He was a skinny pugnosed person who looked like a was retarded.
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For some reason, Metaxas chose a pugnosed redhead with splashy freckles and big feet.
Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969
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If the chatita, linda de mi alma (pugnosed one, pretty creature of my love), asks for their freedom, she shall have it.
Steve Yeager William MacLeod Raine 1912
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The waiter -- a young fellow with a dirty face; pugnosed; as dirty and greasy in all his person as though he had just been pulled out of a cesspool, wiped his lips and asked hoarsely:
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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The motorman, thrown forward, pugnosed, on the guidewheel, yells as he slides past over chains and keys.) _
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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