Nose Definition
- With disapproval, contempt, or arrogance:
Year-round residents here look down their noses at the summer people.
- Exactly; precisely:
predicted the final score on the nose.
- In plain view:
The keys are right under your nose.
- by the length of the animal's nose in horse racing, etc.
- by a very small margin
- to count the number of people present, voting, etc.
Other Word Forms of Nose
Noun
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Nose
- down (one's) nose
- on the nose
- under (someone's) nose
- by a nose
- count noses
- cut off one's nose to spite one's face
- follow one's nose
- have one's nose out of joint
- lead by the nose
- look down one's nose at
- nose out
- nose over
- on the nose
- pay through the nose
- put someone's nose out of joint
- rub someone's nose in
- turn up one's nose at
- under one's (very) nose
Origin of Nose
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From Middle English nose, from Old English nosu, from Proto-Germanic *nusō (compare West Frisian noas, Dutch neus, Norwegian nos "˜snout'), variant of *nasō (compare German Low German Nees, Nes, Näs, German Nase, Norwegian nese "˜nose'), old dual from Proto-Indo-European *néhâ‚‚s- ~ *nhâ‚‚es- "˜nose, nostril' (compare Latin nāris "˜nostril', nāsus "˜nose', Lithuanian nósis, Russian нос (nos), Sanskrit नासा (nā́sā) "˜nostrils').
From Wiktionary
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Middle English from Old English nosu nas- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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