nozzle n.
1. the nose or a nostril.
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Bell's Life in London 5 Feb. 7/1: We recognized many of those well-known phizzes which [...] were wont to illumine ‘the Ring’ with the light of their rubicund nozzles. | |
![]() | Australian (Sydney) 7 Jan. 3/5: His antagonist [...] got hard punished about the ‘nozzle’. | |
![]() | Modern Flash Dict. | |
![]() | Bell’s Life in London 22 Apr. 4/4: A livewly rally [...] Mason catching it on the crown of his nozzle, from whence ‘the bark’ was removed. | |
![]() | N.Y. Clipper n.p.: Jones [...] was again and again jobbed between the eyes and on the nozzle . | |
![]() | Adventures of Mr Verdant Green (1982) II 166: While to another he would say, as a fact not to be disputed [...] ‘That’ll take the bark from your nozzle, and distil the Dutch pink for you, won’t it?’. | |
![]() | Bell’s Life in Sydney 23 May 2/6: Tom [...] got well onto Aaron’s nozzle with his left. | |
![]() | Tom Sayers 30: Tom [...] pinked him twice in succession with effect on the nozzle. | |
![]() | Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 216: What do you say, old Gooseberry Nozzle? | |
![]() | (ref. to 1810s–50s) Bulletin (Sydney) 23 July 21/4: ‘Tom got home heavily on the olfactory projection’ reads quite imposingly; but what about ‘Sayers pinked him on the smeller,’ or ‘the Slasher napped it heavy on the nozzle’? | |
![]() | Yorkville Enquirer (SC) 4 July 4/4: I held my face an inch from his ugly nozzle. | |
![]() | ‘Hello, Soldier!’ 64: Our floor-walker was a major, with a nozzle like a peach. | ‘The Happy Gardeners’ in|
![]() | Ring Nov. 10: conk, smeller, nozzle—The nose. | in|
![]() | (con. 1920s) Behind The Green Lights 335: He was coked up to the nozzle. | |
![]() | Horse’s Mouth (1948) 78: I should like a sharper edge at the junction. Probably get it when the moon actually sticks up her nozzle. She’ll throw a halo. |
2. (US) the penis.
![]() | Memoirs of Madge Buford 127: As he stuck his flaming nozzle to her door I guided it in. | |
![]() | Rent Boy 8: A bulky Italian guy with a fat not very long nozzle. |