dog-nosing

Verb (1)

dog-nose (third-person singular simple present dog-noses, present participle dog-nosing, simple past and past participle dog-nosed)

1. To nose around like a dog, to sniff as if searching
   • While Colonel John W. Sink, th’ eminent Grand Island cigar manufacturer, was out “dog-nosing” jack rabbits th’ other night, a glee club serenaded his home for two hours without response.1916 February 5, Anonymous, “Hort Flug Sez”, United States Tobacco Journal Volume 85, No.8, page 17

Verb (2)

dog-nose (third-person singular simple present dog-noses, present participle dog-nosing, simple past and past participle dog-nosed)

1. To diagnose
   • And now here she was, wearing upon the delicate health of her hostess ; dependent upon the surgery of a more than rural doctor, who said he had dog-nosed the case ; and reduced entirely to her imagination and the daily mail (it seemed to make everything worse that it was brought five miles by a...1879, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, An Old Maid’s Paradise, Chatto and Windus, published 1885, page 29

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