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posy-sniffers

posy-sniffers is the plural of posy-sniffer.

Meaning of posy-sniffer

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

Questions about posy-sniffers

What is posy-sniffers the plural of?
Posy-sniffers is the plural of posy-sniffer.

Words near posy-sniffers in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: posy-sniffers (page history and authors); posy-sniffer (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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