bluenosen.

Brit.

/ˈbluːnəʊz/, U.S.

/ˈblunoʊz/

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., nose n.

Etymology: < blue adj. + nose n. The origin of use in sense 1 is uncertain; it may allude to noses blue with cold, or it may (reflecting the Scottish Presbyterian element in the population of Nova Scotia) allude to sense 3 or earlier apparently related terms such as true blue adj. 2a, or it may (in spite of the chronology) show a humorous allusion to sense 2. With sense 3 compare earlier true blue adj. 2a, and also blue skin n. 3, blue-nosed adj. 2.It is unclear whether the following shows any allusion to sense 3a (if so, it suggests much earlier currency):c1680 Delectable Hist. Poor Robin xvi. sig. B2 Jocky wilt thou ha Jenny to thy Wadded Wife, forsaking all Soons, Lubbar-loons, swig-bellied Calves, black Lips, and blew Noses?

colloquial.

1. Frequently with capital initial.

a. Originally and chiefly North American. A nickname for: a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia; (also occasionally) one from New Brunswick. Sometimes more generally: any Canadian.In modern use Bluenoser (Bluenoser n.) is more common.

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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of Canada > [noun] > parts of

Newfoundlander1611

mountainer1625

Acadian1705

Quebecker1775

bluenose1785

Labradorian1818

Nova Scotian1829

British Columbian1859

Québécois1862

Bluenoser1863

Torontonian1875

Montrealer1877

Winnipegger1882

Ontarian1883

novy1897

Yukonerc1898

herring choker1899

Maritimer1931

Newfie1942

Newfier1942

Spud Islander1957

Newf1958

1785 J. Bailey Let. 18 Nov. in Acadiensis (1902) Jan. 65 The Blue-noses, to use a vulgar appellation,..exerted themselves to the utmost of their power and cunning.

1837 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker p. x When blue-nose hears that, he thinks he's got a bargain.

1845 F. Beavan Life in Backwoods New Brunswick 2 The other original settlers, or, as they are particularly termed, ‘blue noses’.

1899 Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) Tel. 20 Oct. 1/1 I am down among the ‘herring chokers’ and ‘blue noses’ for a few weeks.

1959 Northern Miner 25 June 26/3 [There were] no fights except among the Irish and ‘Bluenoses’ who fight just anywhere.

2003 S. North Bones to Pick vi. 96 Cyrrie is originally from England, although he's now such a staunch Bluenose..that if he cut his finger he'd probably bleed maple syrup.

b. A Nova Scotian ship, typically a schooner. Also occasionally: a similar ship from New Brunswick. Cf. earlier bluenose brig at Compounds 1. Now chiefly historical.In quot. 1861 as the name of a ship.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > Canadian

bluenose1889

1861 E. E. Hale Ninety Days' Worth of Europe 4 Two pilot schooners vying for our custom, and the successful Bluenose having to pull a mile..over such waves as you never saw.]

1889 Cent. Dict. Blue-nose,..a Nova Scotian vessel.

1899 Daily News 2 Dec. 6/4 For sheer brutality commend me to the life on board a ‘Bluenose’, as we call the Canadian whalers.

1925 H. F. Farmer Log of Shellback 8 The Katardin was a ‘bluenose’, making the run across the Atlantic.

1949 J. I. Lawson & J. M. Sweet Our New Brunswick Story 229 In those old days all the ships of the Maritime Provinces were known among sailors the world over as Bluenoses.

2004 H. Sullivan Gone to Yacht 29 This regatta [of 1947] was in Halifax, in Bluenoses designed by Roue.

2. A purplish variety of potato originally grown in Nova Scotia and other parts of northern North America. Now historical.

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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato > types of

baker1651

Irish potato1664

sprout1771

London lady1780

ox-noble1794

pink-eye1795

kidney1796

Suriname1796

round1800

yam potato1801

bluenose1803

yam1805

bead-potato1808

Murphy1811

lumper1840

blue1845

salmon1845

merino1846

regent1846

pink1850

redskin potato1851

fluke1868

snowflake1882

magnum1889

ware1894

snowdrop1900

King Edward1902

Majestic1917

red1926

fingerling1930

Pentland1959

chipper1961

Maris Peer1963

Maris Piper1963

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > types of potato

potato1629

Rough Red1771

sprout1771

London lady1780

russet1780

ox-noble1794

pink-eye1795

kidney1796

Suriname1796

silver-skin1797

yam potato1801

bluenose1803

yam1805

bead-potato1808

lumper1840

blue1845

merino1846

regent1846

pink1850

redskin potato1851

fluke1868

mangel-wurzel potato1875

snowflake1882

snowdrop1900

pomato1905

Idaho1911

Majestic1917

red1926

Pentland1959

1803 S. Perkins Diary 3 May (1967) IV. 455 I plant Early potatoes Near the Street the west Side of my lane & Some Blue Noses.

1844 Family of Seisers II. xii. 113/2 He appeared like the ghost of expectancy watching the unskinning of a blue-nose, and ready to make a meal upon the mealy edibles.

1915 R. K. Wood Tourist's Maritime Provinces 104 We have an old invoice which records the shipment to Boston in the year 1787 of a consignment of potatoes which consisted in part of ‘roses’ and ‘blue noses’.

1923 Rep. Alaska Agric. Expt. Stations 1921 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 48 I am sending you a few potatoes of a kind new to me. I do not know their name. We call them Blue Nose on account of their color and their origin. They came from Nova Scotia.

2006 B. Dojny Dishing up Maine ii. 88 A pioneer named Joseph Houlton is credited with planting the first potato crop—a variety called Early Blue or Blue Nose—in Aroostook County in 1807.

a. Usually derogatory. A nickname for: a Presbyterian. Now rare.

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society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > [noun] > person

disciplinarian1591

disciplinary1593

consistorian1606

Presbyterian1606

kirkmana1645

presbyter1647

presbyterial1647

Presbyterialist1647

Kirker1651

Kirkist1652

whiggamore1654

Whig1657

scaldabancoa1670

cloak-man1680

Presbyteera1708

Knoxian1714

blue skin1790

Auld Kirker1856

bluenose1861

1861 S. Wilberforce Diary 11 Aug. in A. R. Ashwell & R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1883) 326 His own pastor at Bangor good and kind..but..a Binney and a blue nose.

1887 A. J. Wilson At Mercy of Tiberius vii. 114 I thought of all that before I made up my mind to marry the daughter of a Presbyterian preacher. I knew your dear little blue-nose would keep the orthodox trail.

1907 J. Robertson in W. S. MacTavish Missionary Pathfinders x. 118 It is a queer crowd that hasn't a Scotchman in it, and I have never struck a gang yet in the West that hadn't a ‘blue-nose’..among them; and I have never yet seen the Presbyterian that was ashamed of his Church.

b. In extended use. Any excessively moralistic person; one who is priggish or puritanical, a prude. Cf. earlier blue-nosed adj. 2. Originally and chiefly U.S.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected propriety > person

prig1677

prigster1688

prim1699

bluenose1903

Nice Nelly1922

priss1923

prissy1927

1903 F. Norris Pit v. 170 I was vegetating there at Barrington, among those wretched old blue-noses.

1922 H. L. Mencken Prejudices 3rd Ser. i. i. 40 George Bernard Shaw, a Scotch blue-nose disguised as an Irish patriot... Shaw, at bottom, has the ideas of a Presbyterian elder.

1929 Variety 3 Apr. 11/4 That this picture may aggravate blue nose censors is not beyond the bounds of possibility.

1945 Chicago Daily News 2 Aug. 10/7 Our bluenoses are doing a grave injury to the men serving overseas, who have got the impression that married women are running wild.

1954 O. St. J. Gogarty It isn't this Time of Year at All 141 Gray is a bluenose. He hates the doctor and all that he stands for.

1997 M. Groening et al. Simpsons: Compl. Guide 150/2 Sure, I might offend a few of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odors.

†4. U.S. The softshell clam, Mya arenaria. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Myacidae

fleming1603

clam1672

clamp1672

basket-shell1713

Mya1777

soft clam1800

smurlin1806

sand-clam1809

long clam1811

old maid1815

softshell clam1818

maninose1843

gaper1853

long neck1857

geoduck1881

bluenose1883

sand-gaper1887

mano1899

1883 Anglo-Amer. Times 9 Feb. 15/3 Like their sister mollusk, the oyster, they [sc. clams] are divided up into several varieties of grades. The coarsest is the mud clam, or blue nose, which is dug out of the mud with tongues.

Compounds

C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as bluenose brig, bluenose schooner, bluenose skipper, bluenose tradition, bluenose type, etc.

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1838 United Service Jrnl. Aug. 450 This jealousy and unfriendly treatment of strangers..is one of the worst features in the ‘Blue Nose’ character.

1865 E. Cresy Let. 10 Sept. in C. Darwin Corr. (2002) XIII. 230 I am reminded of my last summer's trip by a blue nose brig with a regular blue nose skipper & blue nose crew having just come to grief here.

1886 Washington Post 25 May 2/1 Maine has moved on the Blue Nose enemy by seizing a Yarmouth schooner for a violation of the marine laws.

1931 B. Lubbock Bully Hayes iii. 18 He was no hazing, heavy-fisted, knuckle-duster bucko of the Down-East and Blue Nose type.

1993 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Jan. a2/3 While Buddhist temples seem to have little in common with Bluenose traditions, the new theme park will be located next to Upper Clements Park [in Nova Scotia].

2010 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 2 Aug. a9 It was unbelievable that no level of government would help protect the last surviving Bluenose schooner.

C2. attributive. Esp. in the names of fishes: having a blue snout or nose; cf. blue-nosed adj. 1.

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1916 Ann. Rep. Comm. Fisheries Virginia 1914–15 31 It shall be unlawful to take, catch, or have in possession..any blue nose perch less than seven inches in length.

1954 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 106 128 Notropis sp. Bluenose shiner. A single immature shiner..obtained at station 8 is unique to this collection.

1982 T. Ayling Collins Guide Sea Fishes N.Z. (1984) 301 The blue-nose warehou is a large heavy bodied fish... It is..often known as the blue-nose grouper.

2006 Orange Coast Mag Jan. 224/2 The night we visited, it was grilled Blue Nose bass with mashed yucca and coconut lemongrass.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bluenose
释义	bluenosen. Brit. /ˈbluːnəʊz/, U.S. /ˈblunoʊz/ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blue adj., nose n. Etymology: < blue adj. + nose n. The origin of use in sense 1 is uncertain; it may allude to noses blue with cold, or it may (reflecting the Scottish Presbyterian element in the population of Nova Scotia) allude to sense 3 or earlier apparently related terms such as true blue adj. 2a, or it may (in spite of the chronology) show a humorous allusion to sense 2. With sense 3 compare earlier true blue adj. 2a, and also blue skin n. 3, blue-nosed adj. 2.It is unclear whether the following shows any allusion to sense 3a (if so, it suggests much earlier currency):c1680 Delectable Hist. Poor Robin xvi. sig. B2 Jocky wilt thou ha Jenny to thy Wadded Wife, forsaking all Soons, Lubbar-loons, swig-bellied Calves, black Lips, and blew Noses? colloquial. 1. Frequently with capital initial. a. Originally and chiefly North American. A nickname for: a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia; (also occasionally) one from New Brunswick. Sometimes more generally: any Canadian.In modern use Bluenoser (Bluenoser n.) is more common. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of America > native or inhabitant of North America > native or inhabitant of Canada > [noun] > parts of Newfoundlander1611 mountainer1625 Acadian1705 Quebecker1775 bluenose1785 Labradorian1818 Nova Scotian1829 British Columbian1859 Québécois1862 Bluenoser1863 Torontonian1875 Montrealer1877 Winnipegger1882 Ontarian1883 novy1897 Yukonerc1898 herring choker1899 Maritimer1931 Newfie1942 Newfier1942 Spud Islander1957 Newf1958 1785 J. Bailey Let. 18 Nov. in Acadiensis (1902) Jan. 65 The Blue-noses, to use a vulgar appellation,..exerted themselves to the utmost of their power and cunning. 1837 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker p. x When blue-nose hears that, he thinks he's got a bargain. 1845 F. Beavan Life in Backwoods New Brunswick 2 The other original settlers, or, as they are particularly termed, ‘blue noses’. 1899 Yarmouth (Nova Scotia) Tel. 20 Oct. 1/1 I am down among the ‘herring chokers’ and ‘blue noses’ for a few weeks. 1959 Northern Miner 25 June 26/3 [There were] no fights except among the Irish and ‘Bluenoses’ who fight just anywhere. 2003 S. North Bones to Pick vi. 96 Cyrrie is originally from England, although he's now such a staunch Bluenose..that if he cut his finger he'd probably bleed maple syrup. b. A Nova Scotian ship, typically a schooner. Also occasionally: a similar ship from New Brunswick. Cf. earlier bluenose brig at Compounds 1. Now chiefly historical.In quot. 1861 as the name of a ship. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels from specific country or region > [noun] > Canadian bluenose1889 1861 E. E. Hale Ninety Days' Worth of Europe 4 Two pilot schooners vying for our custom, and the successful Bluenose having to pull a mile..over such waves as you never saw.] 1889 Cent. Dict. Blue-nose,..a Nova Scotian vessel. 1899 Daily News 2 Dec. 6/4 For sheer brutality commend me to the life on board a ‘Bluenose’, as we call the Canadian whalers. 1925 H. F. Farmer Log of Shellback 8 The Katardin was a ‘bluenose’, making the run across the Atlantic. 1949 J. I. Lawson & J. M. Sweet Our New Brunswick Story 229 In those old days all the ships of the Maritime Provinces were known among sailors the world over as Bluenoses. 2004 H. Sullivan Gone to Yacht 29 This regatta [of 1947] was in Halifax, in Bluenoses designed by Roue. 2. A purplish variety of potato originally grown in Nova Scotia and other parts of northern North America. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > root vegetable > [noun] > potato > types of baker1651 Irish potato1664 sprout1771 London lady1780 ox-noble1794 pink-eye1795 kidney1796 Suriname1796 round1800 yam potato1801 bluenose1803 yam1805 bead-potato1808 Murphy1811 lumper1840 blue1845 salmon1845 merino1846 regent1846 pink1850 redskin potato1851 fluke1868 snowflake1882 magnum1889 ware1894 snowdrop1900 King Edward1902 Majestic1917 red1926 fingerling1930 Pentland1959 chipper1961 Maris Peer1963 Maris Piper1963 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > types of potato potato1629 Rough Red1771 sprout1771 London lady1780 russet1780 ox-noble1794 pink-eye1795 kidney1796 Suriname1796 silver-skin1797 yam potato1801 bluenose1803 yam1805 bead-potato1808 lumper1840 blue1845 merino1846 regent1846 pink1850 redskin potato1851 fluke1868 mangel-wurzel potato1875 snowflake1882 snowdrop1900 pomato1905 Idaho1911 Majestic1917 red1926 Pentland1959 1803 S. Perkins Diary 3 May (1967) IV. 455 I plant Early potatoes Near the Street the west Side of my lane & Some Blue Noses. 1844 Family of Seisers II. xii. 113/2 He appeared like the ghost of expectancy watching the unskinning of a blue-nose, and ready to make a meal upon the mealy edibles. 1915 R. K. Wood Tourist's Maritime Provinces 104 We have an old invoice which records the shipment to Boston in the year 1787 of a consignment of potatoes which consisted in part of ‘roses’ and ‘blue noses’. 1923 Rep. Alaska Agric. Expt. Stations 1921 (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 48 I am sending you a few potatoes of a kind new to me. I do not know their name. We call them Blue Nose on account of their color and their origin. They came from Nova Scotia. 2006 B. Dojny Dishing up Maine ii. 88 A pioneer named Joseph Houlton is credited with planting the first potato crop—a variety called Early Blue or Blue Nose—in Aroostook County in 1807. 3. a. Usually derogatory. A nickname for: a Presbyterian. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Protestantism > Presbyterianism > [noun] > person disciplinarian1591 disciplinary1593 consistorian1606 Presbyterian1606 kirkmana1645 presbyter1647 presbyterial1647 Presbyterialist1647 Kirker1651 Kirkist1652 whiggamore1654 Whig1657 scaldabancoa1670 cloak-man1680 Presbyteera1708 Knoxian1714 blue skin1790 Auld Kirker1856 bluenose1861 1861 S. Wilberforce Diary 11 Aug. in A. R. Ashwell & R. G. Wilberforce Life S. Wilberforce (1883) 326 His own pastor at Bangor good and kind..but..a Binney and a blue nose. 1887 A. J. Wilson At Mercy of Tiberius vii. 114 I thought of all that before I made up my mind to marry the daughter of a Presbyterian preacher. I knew your dear little blue-nose would keep the orthodox trail. 1907 J. Robertson in W. S. MacTavish Missionary Pathfinders x. 118 It is a queer crowd that hasn't a Scotchman in it, and I have never struck a gang yet in the West that hadn't a ‘blue-nose’..among them; and I have never yet seen the Presbyterian that was ashamed of his Church. b. In extended use. Any excessively moralistic person; one who is priggish or puritanical, a prude. Cf. earlier blue-nosed adj. 2. Originally and chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > affected propriety > person prig1677 prigster1688 prim1699 bluenose1903 Nice Nelly1922 priss1923 prissy1927 1903 F. Norris Pit v. 170 I was vegetating there at Barrington, among those wretched old blue-noses. 1922 H. L. Mencken Prejudices 3rd Ser. i. i. 40 George Bernard Shaw, a Scotch blue-nose disguised as an Irish patriot... Shaw, at bottom, has the ideas of a Presbyterian elder. 1929 Variety 3 Apr. 11/4 That this picture may aggravate blue nose censors is not beyond the bounds of possibility. 1945 Chicago Daily News 2 Aug. 10/7 Our bluenoses are doing a grave injury to the men serving overseas, who have got the impression that married women are running wild. 1954 O. St. J. Gogarty It isn't this Time of Year at All 141 Gray is a bluenose. He hates the doctor and all that he stands for. 1997 M. Groening et al. Simpsons: Compl. Guide 150/2 Sure, I might offend a few of the blue-noses with my cocky stride and musky odors. †4. U.S. The softshell clam, Mya arenaria. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Pelecypoda or Conchifera > [noun] > section Siphonida > sinu-pallialia > family Myacidae fleming1603 clam1672 clamp1672 basket-shell1713 Mya1777 soft clam1800 smurlin1806 sand-clam1809 long clam1811 old maid1815 softshell clam1818 maninose1843 gaper1853 long neck1857 geoduck1881 bluenose1883 sand-gaper1887 mano1899 1883 Anglo-Amer. Times 9 Feb. 15/3 Like their sister mollusk, the oyster, they [sc. clams] are divided up into several varieties of grades. The coarsest is the mud clam, or blue nose, which is dug out of the mud with tongues. Compounds C1. General attributive (in sense 1), as bluenose brig, bluenose schooner, bluenose skipper, bluenose tradition, bluenose type, etc. ΚΠ 1838 United Service Jrnl. Aug. 450 This jealousy and unfriendly treatment of strangers..is one of the worst features in the ‘Blue Nose’ character. 1865 E. Cresy Let. 10 Sept. in C. Darwin Corr. (2002) XIII. 230 I am reminded of my last summer's trip by a blue nose brig with a regular blue nose skipper & blue nose crew having just come to grief here. 1886 Washington Post 25 May 2/1 Maine has moved on the Blue Nose enemy by seizing a Yarmouth schooner for a violation of the marine laws. 1931 B. Lubbock Bully Hayes iii. 18 He was no hazing, heavy-fisted, knuckle-duster bucko of the Down-East and Blue Nose type. 1993 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Jan. a2/3 While Buddhist temples seem to have little in common with Bluenose traditions, the new theme park will be located next to Upper Clements Park [in Nova Scotia]. 2010 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 2 Aug. a9 It was unbelievable that no level of government would help protect the last surviving Bluenose schooner. C2. attributive. Esp. in the names of fishes: having a blue snout or nose; cf. blue-nosed adj. 1. ΚΠ 1916 Ann. Rep. Comm. Fisheries Virginia 1914–15 31 It shall be unlawful to take, catch, or have in possession..any blue nose perch less than seven inches in length. 1954 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 106 128 Notropis sp. Bluenose shiner. A single immature shiner..obtained at station 8 is unique to this collection. 1982 T. Ayling Collins Guide Sea Fishes N.Z. (1984) 301 The blue-nose warehou is a large heavy bodied fish... It is..often known as the blue-nose grouper. 2006 Orange Coast Mag Jan. 224/2 The night we visited, it was grilled Blue Nose bass with mashed yucca and coconut lemongrass. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1785
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