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Definition: Snub-nosed |
Snub-nosedAdjective1. Having a blunt nose; "a pug-nosed boy with freckles"; "a snub-nosed automatic". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snub-nosed" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1615. (references) |
Synonyms: Snub-nosedSynonyms: pug-nose (adj), pug-nosed (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Snub-nosed |
| English words defined with "snub-nosed": pug-nose, pug-nosed, Pygmy sperm whale. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "snub-nosed": Simia. (references) |
| "Snub-nosed" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snub-nosed" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 18 | 82,615 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "snub-nosed"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | hundëçip (pug nosed, retrousse). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | чипонос. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | s tupým nosem (pug nosed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | paghe stompneusaap (Mentawi pig tailed langur, Mentawi snub-nosed langur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pystynenäinen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | langur queue de cochon (Mentawi snub-nosed langur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Pagehstumpfnasenaffe (Mentawi pig tailed langur, Mentawi snub-nosed langur), Pagehstummelaffe (Mentawi pig tailed langur, Mentawi snub-nosed langur). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | έχων σιμή ρίνα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | pisze orrú (pug nosed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | con il naso a patatina. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | gengagh (snub). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ub-nosedsnay semnopiteco de cauda de porco de Mentawi (Mentawi pig tailed langur, Mentawi snub-nosed langur). (various references) cârn (crooked, snub, snubby). (various references) курносый (end up, end-up, pug nosed, pug-nosed, snub). (various references) prćastog nosa (pug nosed). (various references) de nariz respingona. (various references) trubbnäst (pug nosed), kortpipig. (various references) จมูกรั้น. (various references) kalkık burunlu, küçük kalkık burunlu. (various references) кирпатий (pug nosed). (various references) có mũi tẹt v hếch (pug-nosed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Greek | 700 BCE-300 CE | simos. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | sila, silae, silam, silas, silo, silonites, silonitis, Simias concolor, simula, simulas. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-d-e-n-n-o-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: bonuses, bounden, dunness, nonuses, unbends, unboned. | |
-3 letters: bonnes, bossed, bosuns, bounds, boused, bouses, bussed, douses, nonuse, nouses, onuses, sondes, sounds, soused, sunned, unbend, undoes, undone. | |
-4 letters: bends, bodes, bonds, boned, bones, bonne, bonus, bosun, bound, bouse, bunds, bunns, bused, buses, donne, doses, douse, dunes, ebons, neons, nodes, nodus, nones, nosed, noses, nouns, nudes. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-d-e-n-n-o-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: boundedness. | |
+4 letters: boundednesses, boundlessness, nonsubsidized, unboundedness. | |
+5 letters: insubordinates, libidinousness, roundaboutness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 75 62 2D 6E 6F 73 65 64 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01110101 01100010 00101101 01101110 01101111 01110011 01100101 01100100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n u b - n o s e d |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 0075 0062 002D 006E 006F 0073 0065 0064 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53808768158081857170 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Translations: Ancient 7. Anagrams 8. Orthography | 9. Bibliography |
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