nosie

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Etymology

From nose +‎ -ie.

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Noun

nosie (plural nosies)

  1. (childish) A nose.
    • 1888 September 29, Ernest E. Leigh, “Fido vs. Baby”, in Saturday Night, volume 1, number 44, Toronto, Ont., page 6, column 5:
      Oh! how his little nosie / Is wet with morning dew, / From yonder garden posey / Of pansy blossoms blue.
    • 1908, Alexander R Fordyce, Elenore or, Love’s Conquest: A Rambling Serio-Comic Play-Novel, Newark, N.J.: Brant & Borden, act III, page 112:
      You are my little honey Rosie, / Though freckled be your little nosie.
    • 1921 November, Fannie Hurst, “The Vertical City”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXXI, number 5, page 37, column 2:
      Say, every time that little Jane daubed some whitewash on her little nosie, she gave that grandstand the squints.
    • 1925 early February (?), Thomas Wolfe, edited by Elizabeth Nowell, The Letters of Thomas Wolfe, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published 1956, →LCCN, page 82:
      I think I will do as much for my friends as almost anyone you can find, but I won’t wipe their little nosies, take them to the little room where one goes all alone, or kiss them lovingly before [they go to bed(?)]
    • 1999, Caroline Repchuk, Claire Keene, Geoff Cowan, Kat Wootton, Candy Wallace, Spooky Stories, Parragon, published 2000, →ISBN:
      “And we don’t like little kiddywinks poking their little nosies in, disturbing us.”
    • 2004, Eric Garcia, Cassandra French’s Finishing School for Boys, ReganBooks, →ISBN, page 55:
      Look how dry their poor little nosies are.

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Noun

nosie m inan

  1. locative/vocative singular of nos