nose
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Etymology
[edit]From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu, variant of *nasō, old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s- ~ *nh₂es- (“nose, nostril”).
See also Saterland Frisian Noose, West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Swedish nos, Norwegian nos (“snout”), German Low German Nees, Nes, Näs, German Nase, Swedish näsa, Norwegian nese, Danish næse (“nose”); also Latin nāris (“nostril”), nāsus (“nose”), Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā, “nostrils”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: nōz, IPA(key): [nəʊ̯z]
Audio (London, UK): (file)
- (Standard Southern British) enPR: nōz, IPA(key): [nəwz]
Audio (UK): (file)
- (MLE) enPR: nōz, IPA(key): [noːz]
- (Ireland) enPR: nōz, IPA(key): [noʊ̯z], [nəʊ̯z]
- (General American) enPR: nōz, IPA(key): [noʊ̯z]
Audio: (file)
- Homophones: knows, noes, nos
- Rhymes: -əʊz
Noun
[edit]nose (plural noses)
- A protuberance on the face housing the nostrils, which are used to breathe or smell.
- She had a small nose between two sparkling blue eyes.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
- The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. […].
- A snout, the nose of an animal.
- The tip of an object.
- the nose of a tea-kettle, a bellows, or a fighter plane
- 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter IV, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
- We submerged very slowly and without headway more than sufficient to keep her nose in the right direction, and as we went down, I saw outlined ahead of us the black opening in the great cliff.
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:
- Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.
- The bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle, that fits into the hole of its adjacent piece.
- (horse racing) The length of a horse’s nose, used to indicate the distance between horses at the finish of a race, or any very close race.
- Red Rum only won by a nose.
- A perfumer.
- The sense of smell.
- c. 1700, Jeremy Collier, Of Envy:
- We are not offended with […] a dog for a better nose than his master.
- Bouquet, the smell of something, especially wine.
- The skill in recognising bouquet.
- It is essential that a winetaster develops a good nose.
- (by extension) Skill at finding information.
- A successful reporter has a nose for news.
- (architecture) A downward projection from a cornice.
- Synonym: drip
- (slang) An informer.
- Synonym: nark
- 1846, George William MacArthur Reynolds, The Mysteries of London, page 60:
- […] M was a Magsman, frequenting Pall-Mall; / N was a Nose that turned chirp on his pal; […]
Synonyms
[edit]- (the bulge on the side of a piece of a jigsaw puzzle): tab
- See also Thesaurus:nose
Derived terms
[edit]- aquiline nose
- Australasian pig-nose turtle
- banana-nose
- banana nose
- bignose
- bishop's nose
- bloodied nose
- blood nose
- bloody nose
- blow one's nose
- bluenose
- bluntnose
- bottle-nose
- bottlenose
- bottle-nose dolphin
- brownnose
- bullet-nose
- bullnose
- bull's nose
- button nose
- camel's nose
- cherry nose
- clown nose
- coke nose
- conenose
- copper nose
- cownose
- cut off one's nose to spite one's face
- dicknose
- dog-nose
- dog's nose
- ear, nose and throat
- empty nose syndrome
- e-nose
- flatnose
- follow one's nose
- fucknose
- get up someone's nose
- give someone a bloody nose
- hard nose
- hard-nose
- have someone's nose wide open
- hawknose
- hawk nose
- hawk-nose
- hognose
- hold one's nose
- hooknose
- in front of one's nose
- I've got your nose
- Jewish nose
- Jew nose
- keep one's nose clean
- largenose
- lead by the nose
- longnose
- long-nose
- look beyond the end of one's nose
- look beyond the tip of one's nose
- look down one's nose
- look past the end of one's nose
- look past the tip of one's nose
- neb-nose
- needlenose
- needle-nose gar
- nigger nose
- nollie
- nose about
- nose ape
- nose around
- nose art
- nose-bag
- nose bag
- nosebag
- noseband
- nosebar
- nosebeard
- nose beer
- nose bit
- nose bleed
- nosebleed
- nosebleeder
- nosebleeding
- nose-blind
- nose blind
- nose blindness
- noseblood
- nose bonk
- nose-bonk
- nose bridge
- noseburn
- nose candy
- nose-candy
- nose cap
- noseclip
- nose cone
- nose count
- nosed
- nose-dead
- nose deaf
- nose-deaf
- nosedive
- nose-dive
- nose-ender
- nose-first
- nose flute
- noseful
- nosegay
- nose gear
- nosegear
- nose glasses
- nose grind
- nosegrind
- nose guard
- noseguard
- nosehole
- nose-ish
- nose job
- nose-job
- nose key
- noseleaf
- nose leather
- nose-led
- noseless
- noselift
- noselike
- nose line
- nosely
- nose monkey
- noseness
- nose-nipper
- nose of wax
- nose out of joint
- nose pad
- nose peg
- nose-pick
- nose-picker
- nose-picking
- nose piece
- nosepiece
- nosepin
- noseplug
- nose poke
- nose powder
- noseprint
- nose putty
- noser
- noseride
- nose ring
- nosering
- nose-ringed
- noseshot
- nose-shot
- nose slide
- noseslide
- nosesmart
- nose strip
- nose stud
- nose-suspended
- nose tackle
- nose test
- nose-to-nose
- nose to tail
- nose to the grindstone
- nose trimmer
- noseward
- nosewards
- noseweight
- nosewheel
- nosewing
- nosewise
- nosewitness
- noseworthy
- nosie
- no skin off one's nose
- nostril
- nosy
- nouse
- nozzle
- nussy
- on the nose
- parson's nose
- pay through the nose
- pick one's nose
- pig-nose turtle
- pin a rose on your nose
- plain as the nose on one's face
- poke one's nose into
- pope's nose
- powder one's nose
- prodnose
- pug nose
- Red Nose Day
- red-nose tetra
- ring in one's nose
- Roman nose
- rub someone's nose in
- rummy nose
- rummy-nose tetra
- runny nose
- saddle nose
- saddlenose
- see beyond the end of one's nose
- see beyond the tip of one's nose
- see past the end of one's nose
- see past the tip of one's nose
- shortnose
- shovelnose
- ski jump nose
- ski-jump nose
- ski-nose
- ski nose
- ski ramp nose
- ski-ramp nose
- ski slope nose
- ski-slope nose
- snotnose
- snot-nose
- snub-nose, snub nose
- socked on the nose
- softnose
- softnose, soft-nose, soft nose
- starnose
- stick one's nose in
- stick one's nose into
- stumpnose
- sultan's nose
- talk through one's nose
- the nose knows
- thrust one's nose in
- thumb one's nose
- tubenose
- turn one's nose up
- turn up one's nose
- undernose
- under one's nose
- under one's very nose
- under someone's nose
- up your nose with a rubber hose
- wax-nose
- whipnose
- whitenose
- white nose syndrome
- win by a nose
- wipe someone's nose
Descendants
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[edit]Verb
[edit]nose (third-person singular simple present noses, present participle nosing, simple past and past participle nosed)
- (intransitive) To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
- The ship nosed through the minefield.
- (intransitive) To snoop.
- She was nosing around other people’s business.
- (transitive) To detect by smell or as if by smell.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 273:
- […] if you finde him not this moneth, you ſhall noſe him as you go vp the ſtaires into the Lobby.
- (transitive) To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
- 1868, Alfred Tennyson, “Lucretius”, in The Holy Grail and Other Poems, London: Strahan and Co., […], published 1870, →OCLC, page 211:
- [L]ambs are glad / Nosing the mother's udder, and the bird / Makes his heart voice among the blaze of flowers: […]
- (transitive) To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
- (transitive) To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
- to nose a prayer
- c. 1635, William Cartwright, The Ordinary:
- It makes far better musick when you nose Sternold's, or Wisdom's meeter.
- (transitive) To furnish with a nose.
- to nose a stair tread
- (transitive) To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
- (intransitive, aviation) To dive down in a steep angle; to nosedive
- (intransitive, aviation, nautical) To travel with the nose of the plane/ship aimed in a particular direction.
- The plane is nosing up!
- We have to get it nosing down.
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[edit]Czech
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Noun
[edit]nose
Etymology 2
[edit]Verb
[edit]nose
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[edit]Romanization
[edit]nose
Lower Sorbian
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nose
Middle English
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]From Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu.
Alternative forms
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- nose (protrusion of the human face)
- a. 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales[2], lines 151–152:
- Ful semyly hir wympul pynched was / Hir nose tretys, hir eyen greye as glas […]
- Her wimple was folded in quite a seemly way / Her nose [was] slender; her eyes [were] grey like glass […]
- beak, nose-shaped protrusion
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “nōse, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
[edit]Probably from Old French nous, nos, nominative singular of nou, no (“knot”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nose (plural noses)
Descendants
[edit]- English: noose
References
[edit]- “nōse, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Northern Sotho
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Bantu *njíkɪ̀.
Noun
[edit]nose
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- nosa (a- and split infinitives)
Verb
[edit]nose (present tense nosar, past tense nosa, past participle nosa, passive infinitive nosast, present participle nosande, imperative nose/nos)
- (transitive) to sniff, nose
References
[edit]- “nose” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
[edit]Old English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nose
- inflection of nosu:
Old Frisian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]nose f
Inflection
[edit]Declension of nose (ō-stem) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | nose | nosa |
genitive | nose | nosa, nosena |
dative | nose | nosum, nosem, noson |
accusative | nose | nosa |
Descendants
[edit]Serbo-Croatian
[edit]Verb
[edit]nose (Cyrillic spelling носе)
Slovak
[edit]Noun
[edit]nose
Spanish
[edit]Phrase
[edit]nose
- (text messaging) Short for no sé (“IDK”).
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