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nose-end
[nose n. 17 a.]
a. The tip of the human nose.
b. The end of a nose in any of the transferred senses.
1611Cotgr. s.v. Prendre, You may take your selfe by the nose end; viz...you are as guiltie, faultie, or farre in, as the rest. 1681Grew Musæum i. §ii. i. 20 Not above five Inches and ½ from his Nose end to his Buttocks. c1728Earl of Ailesbury Mem. (1890) 573 Brave he was, but saw not his nose end. 1960S. Plath Colossus (1967) 65 The nose-end that twitches. 1961Times 16 Dec. 11/5 Make sure..that mud does not enter the nose-ends [of a gun].
Hence nose-ender, (a) a straight blow on the nose; (b) (see quots.1929, etc.).
1854‘C. Bede’ Verdant Green ii. 25, I couldn't..give a straight nose-ender. 1929F. C. Bowen Sea Slang 96 Nose ender, a strong head wind. 1946J. Irving Royal Navalese 123 Nose-ender, a head wind and sea; regular Destroyer Weather. 1962W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 82/1 Nose-ender, wind blowing from dead ahead, literally into one's nose. |