nosethirl
English
editAlternative forms
edit- nosethril [16th–17th c.]
Etymology
editFrom Middle English nosethirl. By surface analysis, nose + thirl. Compare nostril.
Noun
editnosethirl (plural nosethirls)
- (now UK regional, archaic) A nostril.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- proud Encelade, whose wide nosethrils burnd / With breathed flames, like to a furnace red [...].
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old English nosþyrel, equivalent to nose + thirl.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnosethirl (plural nosethirles)
Synonyms
editDescendants
edit- English: nosethirl (archaic)
References
edit- “nōse-thirl, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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