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NOSED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a nose (either literal or metaphoric) especially of a specified kind
Classified under:
Similar:
hook-nosed (having an aquiline nose)
pug-nose; pug-nosed; short-nosed; snub-nosed (having a blunt nose)
sharp-nosed (having a sharply pointed nose)
tube-nosed (having a tubular nose)
Antonym:
noseless (having no nose)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb nose
Context examples:
Mr. Chillip was married again to a tall, raw-boned, high-nosed wife; and they had a weazen little baby, with a heavy head that it couldn't hold up, and two weak staring eyes, with which it seemed to be always wondering why it had ever been born.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
The same curious accident happened to him in the rooms of the Indian—a silent, little, hook-nosed fellow, who eyed us askance, and was obviously glad when Holmes’s architectural studies had come to an end.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Turning me around by one arm he moved a broad flat hand along the front vista, including in its sweep a sunken Italian garden, a half acre of deep pungent roses and a snub-nosed motor boat that bumped the tide off shore.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
A small, flat-nosed Jew raised his large head and regarded me with two fine growths of hair which luxuriated in either nostril. After a moment I discovered his tiny eyes in the half darkness.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
