nosed
/nəʊ̯zd/
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British/nəwzd/
nosed is the simple past and past participle of nose.
Meaning of nose
Verb
nose (third-person singular simple present noses, present participle nosing, simple past and past participle nosed)
- To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
- The ship nosed through the minefield.
- To snoop.
- She was nosing around other people’s business.
- To detect by smell or as if by smell.
- […] if you finde him not this moneth, you ſhall noſe him as you go vp the ſtaires into the Lobby.c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
- To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
- [L]ambs are glad / Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers: […]1868, Alfred Tennyson, “Lucretius”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], published 1870, →OCLC, page 211
- To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
- To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
- to nose a prayer
Adjective
nosed (not comparable)
Words formed from nosed
- Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross
- bloody-nosed beetle
- blue-nosed
- blunt-nosed viper
- bottle-nosed
- bottlenosed
- bottle-nosed dolphin
- broad-nosed weevil
- bull-nosed
- Burmese snub-nosed monkey
- carrot-nosed
- cow-nosed ray
- dog-nosed
- double-nosed Andean tiger hound
- hard nosed
- hard-nosed
- hawknosed
- high-nosed
- hog-nosed skunk
- hook-nosed
- hump-nosed
- Kitti's hog-nosed bat
- leaf-nosed
- leaf-nosed bat
- lesser spot-nosed monkey
- long-nosed potoroo
- lowlands hump-nosed pit viper
- Myanmar snub-nosed monkey
- narrow-nosed rhino
- narrow-nosed rhinoceros
- northern hairy-nosed wombat
- nosedness
- pig-nosed turtle
- pug-nosed
- rednosed
- round-eared tube-nosed bat
- round-nosed
- Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer
- Semon's leaf-nosed bat
- sharp-nosed
- short-nosed unicornfish
- shovel-nosed
- shovel-nosed sturgeon
- snot-nosed
- snotty-nosed
- snub-nosed
- snub-nosed monkey
- soft-nosed
- southern hairy-nosed wombat
- star-nosed mole
- toffee-nosed
- unnosed
- white-nosed coati
- Wuyi sharp-nosed frog
Phrases with nosed
Words that rhyme with nosed
Questions about nosed
- What does nosed mean?
- Nosed means having some specific type of nose.
- What is nosed the simple past and past participle of?
- Nosed is the simple past and past participle of nose.
- What part of speech is nosed?
- Nosed is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce nosed?
- Nosed is pronounced /nəʊ̯zd/ (UK).
Words near nosed in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nosed (page history and authors); nose (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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