Definitions for nosing

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nosing nos·ing

Spelling: [noh-zing]

IPA: /ˈnoʊ zɪŋ/

Nosing is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in nosing (ginnos).

Definitions for nosing

noun

1. a projecting edge, as the part of the tread of a step extending beyond the riser or a projecting part of a buttress.
2. the part of the face or facial region in humans and certain animals that contains the nostrils and the organs of smell and functions as the usual passageway for air in respiration: in humans it is a prominence in the center of the face formed of bone and cartilage, serving also to modify or modulate the voice.
3. this part as the organ of smell.
4. the sense of smell:
5. anything regarded as resembling the nose of a person or animal, as a spout or nozzle.
6. the prow of a ship.
7. the forward end of an aircraft.
8. the forward edge of the head of a golf club.
9. a projecting part of anything:
10. a faculty of perceiving or detecting:
11. the human nose regarded as a symbol of meddling or prying:
12. the length of a nose:
13. the bouquet of an alcoholic drink, especially the distinctive aroma of a wine.

Idioms

1. count noses, to count the number of people in attendance:
2. cut off one's nose to spite one's face, to create a disadvantage to oneself through one's own spiteful action.
3. follow one's nose, to go forward in a straight course. to guide oneself by instinct:
4. hold one's nose, to repress feelings of distaste, repulsion, or offense for something that one is obliged to do:
5. keep one's nose clean, to behave oneself; avoid trouble or scandal:
6. keep one's nose to the grindstone. grindstone (def 3).
7. lead (around) by the nose, to exercise complete control over; dominate totally:
8. look down one's nose at, to regard with disdain or condescension:
9. on the nose, Informal. precisely, correctly, or perfectly. exactly on time: (of a bet) for win only. Australian Informal. decayed or putrid; stinking. Australian Informal. distasteful or unpleasant; of doubtful validity or propriety.
10. pay through the nose, to pay an excessive price:
11. put someone's nose out of joint, to annoy or irritate greatly. to supersede a person in another's regard, devotion, etc. to thwart someone; spoil someone's plans.
12. rub someone's nose in, to persecute or tease someone persistently about; nag someone about:
13. turn up one's nose at, to regard with contempt; scorn:
14. under someone's nose, plainly visible to; in full view of; in bold defiance of: Also, under someone's very nose.

Verb phrases

1. nose out, to defeat, especially by a narrow margin: to learn or discover, especially by snooping or prying:

verb (used with object)

1. to perceive by or as by the nose or the sense of smell:
2. to approach the nose to, as in smelling or examining; sniff.
3. to move or push forward with or as with the nose:
4. to touch or rub with the nose; nuzzle.

verb (used without object)

1. to smell or sniff.
2. to seek as if by smelling or scent:
3. to move or push forward:
4. to meddle or pry (often followed by about, into, etc.):

Origin of nosing

First recorded in 1765-75; nose + -ing¹

Examples for nosing

She awoke to fright—some great hairy beast of the forest was nosing her.

“Go easy Mom,” he said, nosing his head around the bathroom door.

No, Johnny liked to hunt alone, nosing up Bear Trap Canyon, looking for broken bush tips, cracks in mud, smudges on rock.

It was old Merlin, nosing around the hall, who tucked it away.

He had been nosing around up at the mine, and may have overheard something.

They don't want white men in their restaurants, or nosing about their places.

The trout were nosing the flies rather than striking with any appetite.

"Now, I found this same when I was nosing around," he explained.

I had to pull up at a climbing angle to keep from nosing into the side of it.

Tom and I will go in first and do most of the nosing around.