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English
Etymology
From nose ring + -ed.
Adjective
nose-ringed (not comparable)
- Wearing a nose ring.
1825, Donald Campbell, An Essay on the Authenticity of Ossian’s Poems, Ayr: M‘Cormick & Carnie, page 19:We shall grant all this, but it must still be admitted, that it were totally inconsistent with the elegant genius and chaste taste of Tacitus to make a tatooed, nose-ringed, naked Hottentot of a chief expatiate, in a stream of eloquence which has never been surpassed, on the sacred beauty of freedom, the anathematised deformity of slavery, and to conjure a band of untamed barbarians, rude of intellect and savage of mind, by the glory of their ancestors to protect their country and to vindicate its rights.
1835, “The Cavaliers of Virginia; or, The Recluse of Jamestown”, in The New-England Magazine, volume VIII, Boston, Mass.: E. R. Broaders, . Eastburn’s Press, page 325:She is decidedly better than the nose-ringed Queen Aliquippa of Dr. McHenry, and not much worse than the squaws in Mr. Cooper’s ‘Prairie.’
2006, Jim Geraghty, “How Did Each Party React to 9/11?”, in Voting to Kill: How 9/11 Launched the Era of Republican Leadership, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 119:And perhaps the Web postings noticed by Beinart were the tasteless snarky bile of nose-ringed teenagers still working out their Freudian issues.