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nose about

nose about verb: to snoop around; to discreetly or covertly search or examine a place or situation.

Verb

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

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To snoop around; to discreetly or covertly search or examine a place or situation.
    • It’s not hard to find antique roads in China. The place has been shaped and reshaped by engineers for thousands of years. As any Chinese schoolchild will tell you, grand civilizations dating to the Bronze Age blazed intricate communications networks that expanded trade and maintained military...2024, Paul Salopek, New Map: Ancient Roads of China, National Geographichttps://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org/articles/2024-07-new-map-ancient-roads-china

Forms of nose about

third-person singular presentnoses about
present participlenosing about
past participlenosed about
pastnosed about

Questions about nose about

What does nose about mean?
Nose about means to snoop around; to discreetly or covertly search or examine a place or situation.
What part of speech is nose about?
Nose about is a verb.
What is the past tense of nose about?
The past tense of nose about is nosed about.

Words near nose about in the dictionary

  1. noscope
  2. noscoped
  3. noscopes
  4. noscoping
  5. nose
  6. nose about
  7. nose ape
  8. nose apes
  9. nose around
  10. nose art
  11. nose bag

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