long-nosen.adj.

1691 T. D'Urfey Love for Money ii. ii. 22 What's that to you long Nose, oh law oh law.

1694 T. D'Urfey Comical Hist. Don Quixote: Pt. 1 iii. i. 22 The hour's a coming Chuffy Chaps—'tis a coming Long Nose ah—Pinckaninny, are your Twincklers twinckling ifaith.

1847 Amer. Rev. Feb. 197/1 A curious disease, incident to the race of long noses: symptom, an itching in the tip of the nose—which leads them to thrust it into every crack and cranny.

1935 J. T. Farrell Judgment Day vi. 157 Was I ready to stand up and give three cheers when that long-nose ended his spiel?

1994 P. Baker Blood Posse ix. 107 ‘Hey! Long nose, you a spy or what?’ Jerome barked at the white youth who kept a safe distance.

2001 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 10 Nov. b7 Foreign longnoses were so few that one of us going for a walk was about as inconspicuous as a pink elephant. We, with our three boys, were something of a sensation. (In China, we still are).

1836 W. Yarrell Hist. Brit. Fishes I. 391 The Garfish…Long-Nose.

1868 Tinsley's Mag. 2 206 There was first the longnose, or snipe-fish, like a long thin mackerel-coloured ribbon.

1910 Brit. Sea Anglers' Soc. Q. Dec. 111 It [sc. the gar-fish] passes under a variety of names, such as long-nose, snipe-eel, sea-needle and mackerel-guard.

1965 J. P. Tupper in A. Wrangles Newnes Compl. Guide Sea Angling 125/2 The garfish has various local names, such as Long Nose, Green Bone, Mackerel Guide, Gorbill, Sea Needle, Snipe Eel and Swordfish.

1781 T. Pennant Hist. Quadrupeds II. 364 Long-nose [Cavy].

1830 E. T. Bennett Gardens & Menagerie Zool. Soc. I. 294 The Long-nose Cavy of Pennant and Agouti of Buffon is about the size of the common rabbit.

1942 Copeia No. 2. 101 Almost nothing has been recorded concerning the natural history of the eastern longnose shiner, Notropis longirostris.

1975 J. McPhee Survival of Bark Canoe (1990) i. 20 The Ojibway Long-Nose Canoe, for example, had in its bow (and stern) an outreaching curve of considerable tumblehome.

1995 Traveller Summer 13/1 It is possible Fraser mistook some of the lake's squawfish and longnose suckers for the more desirable carp.

2009 Daily Tel. 21 Sept. 15/3 (caption) A long-nose vine snake in South East Asia.

1896 H. T. Noel Byrosonia xxi. 301 Zeke knocked at the door, one day, and told the assembled family that a ‘bony, old, long-nose man, dat looked mi'ty nigh like a han't, was sittin' down in de cabin’.

1938 Esquire Jan. 35/3 The streetcars are the same, the longnose sallow Madrileño faces are the same, with the same mixture of brown bullet-headed countrymen.

1979 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 June f1 There is no greater store attraction, however, than a ‘long nose’ foreigner trying on a Mao jacket.

1988 J. Hawkins Sky Strike ix. 65 To win the war without killing every last long-nose bastard in Southeast Asia was unthinkable.

2011 S. Francis Hello, Goodbye Again xxv. 111 The long nose woman slipped past me and entered looking around.

1872 Eng. Mechanic & World of Sci. 18 Oct. 115 Hold top pallet with strong tweezers, bottom with long nose pliers.

1923 Daily Independent (Murphysboro, Illinois) 14 Sept. 7/5 Lost—Leather pocket containing one large and one small screw driver and one pair of long nose pliers.

1977 Kitchens & Bathrooms (Time Life Bks.) (1989) iv. 123/3 (caption) On some disposals, you may have to punch in a knockout plug at the top, then retrieve the plug with a pair of long-nose pliers.

2002 Jrnl. Crustacean Biol. 22 559/1 Galls were collected by using long-nose pliers to break off the branches with galls at their ends, without otherwise damaging the colonies.