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Definition of Nosers
1. noser [n] - See also: noser
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nosers
Literary usage of Nosers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1921)
"... playwrights, com- nosers. and artists (who are citizens or subjects of any
one of them) from the date of the production or first publication of such ..."
2. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"There is but one thing necessary to keep the possession of true glory, which is,
to hear the op- nosers of it with patience, and preserve the virtue by ..."
3. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow (2003)
"They held classes out front attended by grade-conscious brown-nosers who worried
that the ad-hoes' classes wouldn't count towards their degrees. ..."
4. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"There are a few men and women among thieves called nosers. They are so called
be* cause they are in the secret pay of the police, giving information when ..."
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