button nose

plural button noses

1. idiomaticA 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

   2 more examples

   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)

   You can't buy BRAD PITT's icy blue eyes or JENNIFER ANISTON's adorable button nose.

   2001 July 30, Josh Tyrangiel, “People: With these rings, we thee sue”, in Time, retrieved 17 May 2014

2. idiomaticA 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