pug nose
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5.1
- noun
- /pʌg noʊz/
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- His hair was always slicked back and was as black as the thin, wormy-looking mustache underneath his pug nose.
- a little pug nose
- freckles and a pug nose
Examples
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The child's pug nose twitched as she sniffed the flowers in the garden.
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She had a charming pug nose that added to her overall cuteness.
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I was a little white girl with a pug nose born in Pasadena, CA.
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He had a pug nose and an air of dogged determination.
Fiction book (2000) -
Their leader, a lanky fellow with a pug nose and custard-colored eyes, pointed at Artus.
Fiction book (1992) -
Candy, serious gray eyes, a cheerful pug nose, a sprinkle of freckles that stood out now against shock-paled skin.
Fiction book (1994) -
At five feet one inch, she is not much taller than I am - thin and straight, with a pug nose, one brown eye (the good eye) and one blue eye (the bad eye, frosted by a cataract).
Fiction book (1999) -
With a pug nose and chubby cheeks, he resembled a little elf.
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'pug' identifies the dog breed with a characteristic short, upturned snout and 'nose' names the facial organ, so 'pug nose' refers to the type of nose a pug has. This straightforward noun–noun modifier pattern is common cross-linguistically, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
Pug nose may come from the small dog called the pug, which has a short, flat face and a nose that turns up. People used the picture of a pug's nose to describe a human nose that is 'short and flattened', so the phrase now means that kind of nose.