nosehair

plural nosehairs

1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of nose hair

   I could hear each nosehair flicker and respond

   1997, Young Bear, Ray A, Black Eagle Child : the Facepaint narratives, Grove Press page, 33

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   With slow, careful motions he entered into the process of scraping off the left half of his magnificient four-year-old moustache. He found it as difficult and painful as pulling nosehair out by the roots.

   1972, Hendrie, Don, Boomkitchwatt, John Muir Publications, page 130

   He checked himself in the mirror; he needed a nosehair trim.

   1999, Blanchard, Alice, Darkness peering, Wheeler Pub., page 302

   She took her long fingernails and pinched his nosehairs as if she were playing, then, as if inspired, she pulled them as hard as she could, ripping them out of his nose.

   1993, Amerika, Mark, The Kafka chronicles, Black Ice Books, page 77

   Bitch,’ she says again, then carefully snips at the nostrils, her hand shaking. ‘Long nosehairs,’ she wails, ‘are so unbecoming. So unbecoming.’

   1998, Rankin, Ian, Tooth & nail : an Inspector Rebus novel, Orion, page 74