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prodnosing

prodnosing is the present participle and gerund of prodnose.

Meaning of prodnose

Verb

prodnose (third-person singular simple present prodnoses, present participle prodnosing, simple past and past participle prodnosed)

  1. (slang) To meddle; to interfere where one is unwelcome.
    • It's up to you, ladies and gents of the jury, to judge in all fairness whether what follows is in itself culpable, or whether rather the fact that it leads up to the Old Cock getting the push is just another example of the stinking hypocrisy of the official mind which while getting up to I wouldn't...1956, Wolf Mankowitz, My Old Man's a Dustman, page 106

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Questions about prodnosing

What is prodnosing the present participle and gerund of?
Prodnosing is the present participle and gerund of prodnose.

Words near prodnosing in the dictionary

  1. prodivorce
  2. prodn.
  3. prodnose
  4. prodnosed
  5. prodnoses
  6. prodnosing
  7. prodns.
  8. prodocyte
  9. prodom
  10. prodomain
  11. prodomains

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