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ˈnose-bag
[f. nose n.]
1. a. A bag, usually made of strong canvas and leather, which is suspended from a horse's head (the open end covering his nose) so that he may eat the provender contained in it.
1796Grose's Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3), Nose Bag, a bag fastened to the horse's head, in which the soldiers of the cavalry put the oats given to their horses: whence the saying, I see the nose bag in his face; i.e. he has been a private man, or rode private. 1844H. Stephens Bk. Farm II. 178 Every man takes his pair of nose-bags, and supplies his own horses. 1873Tristram Moab vi. 112 The muleteers are not scrupulous about stealing from each other's nosebags.
transf.1889Pall Mall G. 22 Jan. 6/2 It is often said that these public institutions are largely used as ‘nose-bags’—that they afford a comfortable corner for persons to lunch in or otherwise shelter themselves.
b. slang. (See quot. 1860.) Also, the practice among holiday-makers of taking their own food or refreshments with them; attrib., as nose-bag crowd.
1860Slang Dict., Nose-Bags, visitors at watering places, and houses of refreshment, who carry their own victuals. 1908Daily Chron. 4 Aug. 3/4 Neither was it, as one of Messrs. Lyons's managers observed with appreciation, a ‘nose-bag’ crowd. 1909Ibid. 7 June 5/2 The ‘nose-bag’ grows and flourishes.
2. A net placed over a horse's nose to protect it from flies.
1839Holloway Prov. Dict. s.v. Nose-fly, Nose-bags or nets are used to protect the horses' noses.
3. Food, a meal. Also allusively. Phr. to put (occas. get) on the nose-bag, to eat. slang.
1874Hotten Slang Dict. 239 To ‘put on the nose-bag’ is to eat hurriedly, or to eat while continuing at work. 1886F. T. Elworthy West Somerset Word-Bk. 521 Well! hon I zeed zo many o' they there whit-neckangkecher fullers comin', I thinks to mysul, there's a bit of a nose⁓bag a-gwain on in there. 1898J. D. Brayshaw Slum Silhouettes 155 Come in, we'll jist 'ave five minutes wiv the nose-bag. 1921R. Lardner Big Town v. 201 We couldn't stop to put on the nose bag at the Graham. 1925Wodehouse Carry On, Jeeves! vi. 145 Biffy's man came in with the nose-bags and we sat down to lunch. 1926Amer. Speech I. 652/1 Nose-bag, lunch handed out in paper bag. 1930D. L. Sayers Strong Poison xi. 137 Thanks awfully, I've had my morning nosebag. 1962New Statesman 21 Dec. 897/3 The precise time the family get the nose-bag on. 1973Wodehouse Bachelors Anonymous xiv. 185, I must rush. I'm putting on the nosebag with a popsy.
4. A gas-mask. colloq.
1915D. O. Barnett Let. 11 May 135 Every one was ready and had their nose-bags on, and the gas had no effect whatever. 1940Everybody's Weekly 2 Mar. 4/1 Londoners call their masks ‘Dicky-birds’, ‘Canaries’ and ‘Nose-bags’. |