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Nero Wolfe

Nero Wolfe noun: a wealthy gourmand with exacting standards and a wealth of knowledge on specialist subjects, especially orchids.

Noun

Nero Wolfe (plural Nero Wolfes)

  1. A wealthy gourmand with exacting standards and a wealth of knowledge on specialist subjects, especially orchids.
    • One does not nave to have the income of a Nero Wolfe to play with orchids at home. One does need a good library.1969, Garden Journal, volumes 19-21, New York Botanical Garden, page 40
    • The utilities indicate that the person is indifferent as to whether or not he washes a saucer or destroys a good egg, but that he prefers a six-egg omelet to a five-egg one and a Nero Wolfe omelet to an ordinary one1988, Decision Making: Descriptive, Normative, and Prescriptive Interactions, Cambridge University Press, page 230

Examples of Nero Wolfe in a sentence

  • Sir Abercrombie is the Nero Wolfe of Snowdonia; his vanities and obsessions focus not on food, orchids, and English language usage, but on Shakespeare quotations for all occasions.2016, Marjorie Garber, The Muses on Their Lunch Hour, Fordham University Press, page 119:
  • In less than a year Harry had become the Nero Wolfe of cats, thanks to the tidbits fed to him by everyone.1999, Earlene Fowler, Dove in the Window, Penguin Publishing Group:

Forms of Nero Wolfe

pluralNero Wolfes

Origin of Nero Wolfe

From the Nero Wolfe series of detective novels.

Questions about Nero Wolfe

What does Nero Wolfe mean?
Nero Wolfe means a wealthy gourmand with exacting standards and a wealth of knowledge on specialist subjects, especially orchids.
How do you use Nero Wolfe in a sentence?
Sir Abercrombie is the Nero Wolfe of Snowdonia; his vanities and obsessions focus not on food, orchids, and English language usage, but on Shakespeare quotations for all occasions.
What part of speech is Nero Wolfe?
Nero Wolfe is a noun.
What is the plural of Nero Wolfe?
The plural of Nero Wolfe is Nero Wolfes.

Words near Nero Wolfe in the dictionary

  1. Nernst lamps
  2. Nernstian
  3. Nero
  4. nero antico
  5. nero di seppia
  6. Nero Wolfe
  7. Nero's crown
  8. neroi
  9. Neroic
  10. nerol
  11. neroli

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