| 释义 |
noser|ˈnəʊzə(r)|
[f. nose n. + -er.]
1. A blow or fall on the nose.
1851Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 12/2 The winner is the man who gives the first ‘noser’; a bloody nose however is required to show that the blow was veritably a noser. 1862Country Gentl. II. 42 That Irish Baronet had a noser at the same place.
2. A strong head wind; a wind in one's face; esp. in phr. a dead noser.
1852Beck's Florist 13 The fair wind..soon shifted into an adverse quarter, and off the coast of Scotland..it became a dead noser. 1873W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 303 The hurricane born of Captain Rice's ‘noser’ came on us fourteen hours after. |