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bluenose

[ UK /blˈuːnə‍ʊz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia

How To Use bluenose In A Sentence

  • Judging by a legion of newspaper articles, books, and tourist brochures, the issue has long been settled to the satisfaction of the Bluenoses.
  • Bluenoses were early pioneers in Canada,’ my father said as he made a bid for a third helping of lemon pie.
  • He examined the group again and saw that grown men and women who dress up in padded bike shorts, gaudy polyester shirts, little fingerless gloves, and silly helmets shaped like insect heads are probably not going to be rigid bluenoses.
  • And despite what he and other bluenoses seem to think, I'm pretty sure that the per capita amount of sex in the world today isn't any larger than it was a thousand years ago, rap music and pop stars notwithstanding.
  • We used to have a host of words to describe the likes of him: prig, bluenose, Comstock, stuffed-shirt.
  • Wilde, never very shy about his bisexuality, rebelled against the hypocrisy of the straight-laced bluenoses who kept their marriages intact but also took off for long weekends in the country with their young boyfriends -- "Bunburying" (notice the little play on words ....). High Society
  • Hollywood bluenoses, prohibition, the loose morals of Greenwich Village, religion - hardly any American phenomenon was outside his ambit.
  • Libraries are about choices, or at least they should be, and it annoys the hell out of me that some bluenose thinks he or she should be able to decide for everyone else what we can and cannot read.
  • Our local cop must be an "on paper" policeman as opposed to a plastic or a real one. bluenose, witney says ... Undefined
  • Nova Scotian climate is so harsh in wintertime that the seaboard Nova Scotian colonists of the eighteenth century earned the nickname 'Bluenoses' for their ability to stand the cold.
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