a. [f. as prec.] Having a snub nose.
1725. Bailey, Erasm. Colloq. (1878), I. 44. Can you fancy that … Snub-nos’d, Sparrow-mouth’d, Paunch-belly’d Creature?
1758. Ann. Reg., Poetry, 439. A snub-nos’d dog to fat inclin’d.
1775. Sheridan, Duenna, II. ii. I was taught to believe you a little black, snub-nosed fellow.
1833. Marryat, P. Simple (1863), 187. The lieutenant, who was a little snub-nosed man, with a pimply face.
1882. T. Hodgkin, in Macm. Mag., XLVI. 126/1. He should make us forget the extreme vulgarity of the snub-nosed effigy on his coins.
b. In specific names (see quots.).
c. 1880. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., II. 255. The Short-headed Whale, or Snub-nosed Cachalot.
1884. Coues, N. Amer. Birds, 807. S[imorhynchus] cristatellus,… Snub-nosed Auk.
1891. Cent. Dict., s.v. Simenchelys, S. parasiticus, the only species, is known as the pug-nosed or snub-nosed eel.
Hence Snub-nosedness.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), IV. 228. The snubnosedness of Theaetetus … is characteristic both of him and Socrates.
