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nosethirls

nosethirls is the plural of nosethirl.

Meaning of nosethirl

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

Questions about nosethirls

What is nosethirls the plural of?
Nosethirls is the plural of nosethirl.

Words near nosethirls in the dictionary

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

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