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Pug nose   /pəg noʊz/   Listen
noun
Pug nose  n.  A short, thick nose; a snubnose.
Pug-nose eel (Zool.), a deep-water marine eel (Simenchelys parasiticus) which sometimes burrows into the flesh of the halibut.






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"Pug nose" Quotes from Famous Books



... tried it. Bonnie Bell already killed two of their dogs with her new electric brougham. You see, she had to go out and try it for herself, for she says she can ride anything that has hair on it, even if it's only curled hair in the cushions. First thing you know, the Wisner dog—pug nose it was, with its tail curled tight—it goes out on the road, acting like it owned the whole street, same as its folks does. Well, right then him and Bonnie Bell's new electric mixes it. The dog ...
— The Man Next Door • Emerson Hough

... the contrary, it was rather attractive, with a fair, pale skin, freckled. His small, lively gray eyes had a fearless look, and often glowed with feeling. He had rather high cheekbones; small, very red, but not very thick, lips; his nose was small and unmistakably turned up. "I've a regular pug nose, a regular pug nose," Kolya used to mutter to himself when he looked in the looking-glass, and he always left it with indignation. "But perhaps I haven't got a clever face?" he sometimes thought, doubtful even of that. But it must not be supposed that his mind was preoccupied with his ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... on the folded quilt which Euphemia prepared for him, where he turned up his little pug nose to the ceiling and went ...
— Rudder Grange • Frank R. Stockton

... are the coolest kid," began Tavia with a loving little tug at Dorothy's arm. "You go to pieces on small things, but seem to glory in a good big scrape. I would simply have hauled off and landed one on that high-up lady's pug nose." ...
— Dorothy Dale's Queer Holidays • Margaret Penrose

... fair, pale skin, freckled. His small, lively gray eyes had a fearless look, and often glowed with feeling. He had rather high cheekbones; small, very red, but not very thick, lips; his nose was small and unmistakably turned up. "I've a regular pug nose, a regular pug nose," Kolya used to mutter to himself when he looked in the looking-glass, and he always left it with indignation. "But perhaps I haven't got a clever face?" he sometimes thought, doubtful even of that. But it must not be supposed that his mind was preoccupied ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky



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