nooser
US/ˈnusɚ/
nooser noun: someone who uses a noose.
Noun
nooser (plural noosers)
- Someone who uses a noose.
- Siribeddi followed with the same laggard step, and drew herself close up in his rear, enabling the native who acted as nooser, and who had followed stealthily behind, to slip the noose over the hind foot of the wild elephant.1868, Alfred Elliott, The Forest, the Jungle, and the Prairie; or, Scenes with the Trapper and the Hunter in Many Lands, page 321
- A nooser, lithe and active as an eel, slid down the pad-rope of his decoy and, waiting until the attention of the captive had been momentarily distracted, slipped a thick noose of rawhide around the hind ankle of his prize.1912, Outing: Sport, Adventure, Travel, Fiction, Volume 59, W. B. Holland, page 269
Forms of nooser
| plural | noosers |
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Origin of nooser
From noose + -er.
Questions about nooser
- What does nooser mean?
- Nooser means someone who uses a noose.
- What part of speech is nooser?
- Nooser is a noun.
- How do you pronounce nooser?
- Nooser is pronounced /ˈnusɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of nooser?
- The plural of nooser is noosers.
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