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单词 sharp-nosed
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sharp-nosedadj.

1. Having a pointed nose.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > nose > [adjective] > types of nose > having
cammed?c1350
camoised1393
nosed?1440
hook-nosed1519
snat-nosed1519
flat-nosed1530
bottle-nosed1566
chamoy-nosed1598
saddle-nosed1598
swine-snouted1600
camois-nosed1601
round-nosed1611
nosy1620
flat-nose1636
simous1656
sharp-nosed1675
tutty-nosed1681
Roman-nosed1688
snut-nosed1706
snub-nosed1725
camois1745
blunt-nosed1772
pug-nosed1788
snipy1825
button-nosed1830
nip-nosed1831
leptorrhinian1878
leptorrhine1880
snub1883
knob-nosed1886
long-nose1896
Tartar-nosed1897
Ally Sloper1901
beaky-nosed1923
1675 London Gaz. No. 1053/4 A Pied Dog,..shap't like a Lurcher, sharp Nosed.
1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 64 The Sharp-Nosed Ray.
1829 J. Richardson Fauna Boreali-Americana I. 126 Sharp-nosed Meadow-Mouse.
1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xxii. 226 An important-looking, sharp-nosed, mysterious-spoken personage.
1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 140 The Sharp-nosed Eel. Anguilla vulgaris.
2. Having a keen ‘scent’; figurative quick at fault-finding, captious. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > criticism > [adjective] > captiously
captiousc1380
pick-fault1544
fastidious?1555
sharp-nosed1561
cavillous?1571
carpacious1574
cavillinga1576
find-fault1576
Zoilous1577
carpinga1586
exceptious1602
quarrellous1610
exceptive1623
Zoilitical1665
nibbling1691
pickthanking1830
Zoilean1846
snippy1848
nitpicking1948
nitpicky1962
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 19 Now let come foorth al these sharpnosed fault finders.
1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. S. Paule to Timothie & Titus 891/1 That wee bee not sharpe nosed to striue against the doctrine of God.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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