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nosefuls

nosefuls is the plural of noseful.

Meaning of noseful

Noun

noseful (plural nosefuls)

  1. As much (of a scent etc.) as can be taken into one's nose; a sniff.
    • At last he did what I wanted: I stood so close I could snuff up nosefuls of his musty smell, and he snipped the curls from my head one by one.2002, Kate Grenville, Joan makes history

Questions about nosefuls

What is nosefuls the plural of?
Nosefuls is the plural of noseful.

Words near nosefuls in the dictionary

  1. nosedove
  2. noseeum
  3. noseeums
  4. nosefirst
  5. noseful
  6. nosefuls
  7. nosegay
  8. nosegayed
  9. nosegays
  10. nosegear
  11. nosegent

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nosefuls (page history and authors); noseful (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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