1817 W. Hazlitt I. xii. 91 The young Lady coloured like a rose, dandling her little, black, pug-faced, white-teethed, chuckling favourite.
1926 D. H. Lawrence v. 92 The pug-faced Mexican in charge.
1998 ‘M. Manson’ & N. Strauss xii. 192 A pug-faced, inbred-looking bartender.