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blue-nosed

blue-nosed adjective: priggish.

Adjective

blue-nosed (comparative more blue-nosed, superlative most blue-nosed)

  1. priggish
  2. A person from Nova Scotia.

Forms of blue-nosed

comparativemore blue-nosed
superlativemost blue-nosed
alternative formbluenosed

Questions about blue-nosed

What does blue-nosed mean?
Blue-nosed means priggish.
What part of speech is blue-nosed?
Blue-nosed is an adjective.

Words near blue-nosed in the dictionary

  1. blue-linked
  2. blue-lipped sea krait
  3. blue-lipped sea kraits
  4. blue-necked ostrich
  5. blue-necked ostriches
  6. blue-nosed
  7. blue-ocean
  8. blue-on-blue
  9. blue-pencil
  10. blue-penciled
  11. blue-penciling

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