nosie

plural nosies · alternative rare nosey · alternative rare nosy

1. childishA nose.

   Look how dry their poor little nosies are.

   2004, Eric Garcia, Cassandra French’s Finishing School for Boys, ReganBooks, →ISBN, page 55

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   Oh! how his little nosie / Is wet with morning dew, / From yonder garden posey / Of pansy blossoms blue.

   1888 September 29, Ernest E. Leigh, “Fido vs. Baby”, in Saturday Night, volume 1, number 44, Toronto, Ont., page 6, column 5

   You are my little honey Rosie, / Though freckled be your little nosie.

   1908, Alexander R[obert] Fordyce, Elenore or, Love’s Conquest: A Rambling Serio-Comic Play-Novel, Newark, N.J.: […] Brant & Borden, act III, page 112

   Say, every time that little Jane daubed some whitewash on her little nosie, she gave that grandstand the squints.

   1921 November, Fannie Hurst, “The Vertical City”, in Cosmopolitan, volume LXXI, number 5, page 37, column 2

   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(?)]

   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

   “And we don’t like little kiddywinks poking their little nosies in, disturbing us.”

   1999, Caroline Repchuk, Claire Keene, Geoff Cowan, Kat Wootton, Candy Wallace, Spooky Stories, Parragon, published 2000, →ISBN