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nosies

nosies is the plural of nosie.

nosies is the plural of nosy.

nosies is the third-person singular simple present indicative of nosy.

Meaning of nosie

Noun

nosie (plural nosies)

  1. (childish) 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

Meaning of nosy

Noun

nosy (plural nosies)

  1. (UK, slang) A look at something to satisfy one's curiosity.
    • I might wander down to the construction site for a nosy at what they're building.
  2. (childish, rare) A nose.
    • There was a little Rosy, / And she had a little nosy; / And she made a little posy, / All pink and white and green. / And she said, “Little nosy, / Will you smell my little posy? / For of all the flowers that growsy, / Such sweet ones ne’er were seen.” / So she took the little posy, / And she put...1890, Laura E[lizabeth] Richards, “Rosy Posy”, in In My Nursery, Boston, Mass.: Roberts Brothers, page 174

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Questions about nosies

What is nosies the plural of?
Nosies is the plural of nosie.

Words near nosies in the dictionary

  1. noshow
  2. noshows
  3. nosie
  4. nosied
  5. nosier
  6. nosies
  7. nosiest
  8. nosiheptide
  9. nosily
  10. nosiness
  11. nosinesses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: nosies (page history and authors); nosie (page history and authors); nosy (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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