[See SNUB NOSE.]
A. sb. A snub nose.
1830. Marryat, Pacha Many T., xv. As my father’s nose was aquiline, and mine is a snub.
1840. Barham, Ingol. Leg., Ser. II. Aunt Fanny, vii. She turn’d up her dear little snub at ‘the Man.’
1862. Sala, Seven Sons, I. xi. 266. Her nose between the mild retroussé and the decided snub.
B. adj. 1. Of the nose: Short and turned up.
1844. Dickens, Mart. Chuz., xvi. That order of nose on which the envy of mankind has bestowed the appellation ‘snub.’
1853. Mrs. Gaskell, Cranford, i. Her nose was unformed and snub.
1886. J. E. C. Welldon, trans. Aristotle’s Rhet., 30. The aquiline or snub character of a nose.
2. Snub-nosed.
1883. G. Meredith, Poems of Joy of Earth, 39. The snub kids Upon hindlegs went sportive.
