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  • adjective Alternative form of pug-nosed.

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Examples

  • He was a skinny pugnosed person who looked like a was retarded.

    FRIDAY FREE FOR ALL: THE PUMMEL HORSE 2008

  • For some reason, Metaxas chose a pugnosed redhead with splashy freckles and big feet.

    Up The Line Silverberg, Robert 1969

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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