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button nose

button nose noun: a nose with a small size and a relatively flat, round shape, usually considered to be dainty or cute in appearance.

Noun

button nose (plural button noses)

  1. (idiomatic) A nose with a small size and a relatively flat, round shape, usually considered to be dainty or cute in appearance.
    • She had little features, a button nose, a pretty chin and a long graceful neck.1909, H. G. Wells, chapter 2, in Tono Bungay
    • Tintin, the comic strip hero with the button nose, poppy-seed eyes and blond flip hairdo, is now an institution.1993 June 6, Edmund White, "Sapristi! Is This Our Tintin?" (review of Tintin in the New World: A Romance by Frederic Tuten), New York Times (retrieved 17 May 2014)
  2. (idiomatic) A person having such a nose.
    • Surprisingly, the film is delightful—mostly because of 15-year-old Hayley Mills, the blonde button nose who played the endearing delinquent in Tiger Bay.1961 July 7, “Cinema: Adults Are Boobs”, in Time, retrieved 17 May 2014

button nose meaning in Bengali

button nose in Bengali

গোল আকৃতির একটি নাক

Forms of button nose

pluralbutton noses

Questions about button nose

What does button nose mean?
Button nose means a nose with a small size and a relatively flat, round shape, usually considered to be dainty or cute in appearance.
What is button nose in Bengali?
Button nose in Bengali is গোল আকৃতির একটি নাক. See Button nose meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is button nose?
Button nose is a noun.
What is the plural of button nose?
The plural of button nose is button noses.

Words near button nose in the dictionary

  1. button mashes
  2. button mashing
  3. button men
  4. button mushroom
  5. button mushrooms
  6. button nose
  7. button noses
  8. button one's lip
  9. button plant
  10. button punch
  11. button punches

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