| 单词 | old nosey |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOld Nosey 1. A nickname for: a person who has a large nose; spec. (chiefly as Old Nosey) the Duke of Wellington. Also (ironically) a nickname for: a person who has no nose (rare). ΚΠ 1788 Archaeol. 9 148 There is an admirable caricatura of a musician, what the vulgar of this day would call Nosey, playing on a violin. 1804 Naval Chron. 11 100 Pye..was always called Nozey. 1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) III. 89 The calling a noseless man, nosey, is adding insult to the injury which he has sustained. 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 474/1 Had heer'd of the Duke of Wellington; he was Old Nosey. 1887 Dict. National Biogr. IX. 428/2 It is said that the gallery cry, ‘Play up, nosey’, owes its origin to his appearance. 1952 Amer. Hist. Rev. 57 1026 He measured the humble and the great with a sharp eye for good soldiership—whether the man was a corporal or ‘Old Nosey’ himself, the duke of Wellington. 1990 B. Cornwell Sharpe's Waterloo iii. 29 The Duke of Wellington, ‘Nosey’ to his men. < as lemmas |
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