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posy-sniffer

posy-sniffer noun: effeminate man.

Noun

posy-sniffer (plural posy-sniffers)

  1. Effeminate man
    • "I... just... can't... stand... having some... goddamned... posy-sniffer of a main-line Philadelphia closet queen... who inherited his fucking money... and doesn't have any fucking idea of what goes into making it... trying"--and here her teeth came together and stayed there, and the expression on...2017, Max Edelman, Sex Swinging Foursome for the H, →ISBN
  2. Environmentalist
    • Carl glared at the Greenpeace stall a few metres further along the mall. 'I wish we hadn't set up so close to the posy-sniffers.'1992, Elizabeth Knox, Treasure, →ISBN, page 116
    • Beau pointed to the environmentalists and said, “Those posy-sniffers will never change— until they have no gas for their cars.”2010, Joe Barfield, Moon Shadow, →ISBN

Forms of posy-sniffer

pluralposy-sniffers

Questions about posy-sniffer

What does posy-sniffer mean?
Posy-sniffer means effeminate man.
What part of speech is posy-sniffer?
Posy-sniffer is a noun.
What is the plural of posy-sniffer?
The plural of posy-sniffer is posy-sniffers.

Words near posy-sniffer in the dictionary

  1. posy
  2. posy ring
  3. posy rings
  4. posy sniffer
  5. posy sniffers
  6. posy-sniffer
  7. posy-sniffers
  8. Posyet Bay
  9. posynomial
  10. posynomials
  11. posé

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