Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
star-nosed: applied to the condylure. See cut underCondylura .
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Examples
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She's petite, button-nosed, doe-eyed, with a boyish thatching of short hair flopped over her forehead.
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She's petite, button-nosed, doe-eyed, with a boyish thatching of short hair flopped over her forehead.
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The kicker: Despite their button-nosed hotness and inborn mastery of the English language, these exotic ladies from down under have an obscenely hot accent that melts the ear in a way that makes other body parts feel funny.
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At the line, a button-nosed boy, grinning from ear to ear, wagged his timber.
Home Of The Brave Loren Long 2010
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A soccer ball hit the window and rolled back to a button-nosed boy in long shorts playing in the yard.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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A soccer ball hit the window and rolled back to a button-nosed boy in long shorts playing in the yard.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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At the line, a button-nosed boy, grinning from ear to ear, wagged his timber.
Home Of The Brave Loren Long 2010
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If you get hooked up with a bright-eyed, button-nosed little waif, it might be Julie on her next go-round.
When Animals Speak Penelope Smith 2009
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The main improvement I felt was that seeing 'Toby' played by an actual child instead of a button-nosed adult chorus boy acting unconvincingly like one added a dimension of threat and vulnerability to the story that the stage version didn't play up as much.
Sweeney Todd Flashbacks Jaime J. Weinman 2007
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Porte-Noir can't lust after his button-nosed ice skater without tacitly conceding that a standard marriage to a nice Jewish girl is beneath his ambitions.
Fatherland 2004
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