nosie
nosie noun: a nose.
Noun
nosie (plural nosies)
- A nose.
- Oh! how his little nosie / Is wet with morning dew, / From yonder garden posey / Of pansy blossoms blue.1888 September 29, Ernest E. Leigh, “Fido vs. Baby”, in Saturday Night, volume 1, number 44, Toronto, Ont., page 6, column 5
- You are my little honey Rosie, / Though freckled be your little nosie.1908, Alexander R[obert] Fordyce, Elenore or, Love’s Conquest: A Rambling Serio-Comic Play-Novel, Newark, N.J.: […] Brant & Borden, act III, page 112
Examples of nosie in a sentence
- Say, every time that little Jane daubed some whitewash on her little nosie, she gave that grandstand the squints.1921 November, Fannie Hurst, “The Vertical City”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXXI, number 5, page 37, column 2:
- “And we don’t like little kiddywinks poking their little nosies in, disturbing us.”1999, Caroline Repchuk, Claire Keene, Geoff Cowan, Kat Wootton, Candy Wallace, Spooky Stories, Parragon, published 2000, →ISBN:
- Look how dry their poor little nosies are.2004, Eric Garcia, Cassandra French’s Finishing School for Boys, ReganBooks, →ISBN, page 55:
Forms of nosie
| plural | nosies |
|---|---|
| alternative form (rare) | nosey |
| alternative form (rare) | nosy |
Origin of nosie
From nose + -ie.
Questions about nosie
- What does nosie mean?
- Nosie means a nose.
- How do you use nosie in a sentence?
- Say, every time that little Jane daubed some whitewash on her little nosie, she gave that grandstand the squints.
- What part of speech is nosie?
- Nosie is a noun.
- What is the plural of nosie?
- The plural of nosie is nosies.
Words near nosie in the dictionary
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