2syllables
nosing
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Definitions ofnosing
1verb
- To move cautiously by advancing its front end.
Example: "The ship nosed through the minefield."
- To snoop.
Example: "She was nosing around other people’s business."
- To detect by smell or as if by smell.
- To push with one's nose; to nuzzle.
- To defeat (as in a race or other contest) by a narrow margin; sometimes with out.
- To utter in a nasal manner; to pronounce with a nasal twang.
Example: "to nose a prayer"
- To furnish with a nose.
Example: "to nose a stair tread"
- To confront; be closely face to face or opposite to.
1noun
- An animal's pushing or exploration with the nose.
- That part of the treadboard of a stair that projects over the riser.
- Any similar projection, such as the projecting edge of a moulding.
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