Etymology

nosethirl

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Today it means: A nostril. Full definition →

Middle English nosethirl
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromnosethirl
  2. English todaynosethirl

From Middle English nosethirl. By surface analysis, nose + thirl. Compare nostril.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.