Noun: nosethirl
| Singular | nosethirl |
| Plural | nosethirls |
Sample Sentences
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proud Encelade, whose wide nosethrils burnd / With breathed flames, like to a furnace red [...]. [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:]
Nouns inflected like nosethirl
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English nosethirl. By surface analysis, nose + thirl. Compare nostril. See: Middle English Nouns '
nosethirl'.