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nosethirl

nosethirl noun: a nostril.

Noun

nosethirl (plural nosethirls)

  1. (UK, archaic, regional) A nostril.
    • proud Encelade, whose wide nosethrils burnd / With breathed flames, like to a furnace red [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Forms of nosethirl

pluralnosethirls
alternative formnosethril

Origin of nosethirl

From Middle English nosethirl. By surface analysis, nose + thirl. Compare nostril.

Questions about nosethirl

What does nosethirl mean?
Nosethirl means a nostril.
What part of speech is nosethirl?
Nosethirl is a noun.
What is the plural of nosethirl?
The plural of nosethirl is nosethirls.

Words near nosethirl in the dictionary

  1. noseslide
  2. noseslides
  3. nosesmart
  4. nosesore
  5. nosesores
  6. nosethirl
  7. nosethirls
  8. noseward
  9. nosewards
  10. noseweight
  11. noseweights

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