英语词汇“to touch noses”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

e. New Zealand. In plural. In phrases describing the Maori custom of hongi, as to touch (press, etc.) noses: to perform the Maori greeting hongi.For to rub noses: see rub v.¹ Phrases 6 and nose rubbing n. at Compounds 2; despite the frequency of this form it does not accurately describe the practice.to press noses is the preferred modern English use; see quot. 1984.

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c1771 W. B. Monkhouse in J. Cook Jrnls. (1955) I. 567 But tho' the man saw C. Cook give away his weapon to put himself on a footing with him..he had not courage enough to wait his arrival.., however he at last ventured forward, they saluted by touching noses.

1820 A. McCrae Jrnl. (1928) 12 On taking leave of these boys I touched noses with them.

1838 J. S. Polack New Zealand I. 75 Every one of them came up to press noses.

1905 W. Baucke in D. M. Davin N.Z. Short Stories (1953) 50 I therefore murmured, ‘I greet you’, and crossed noses with her.

1953 E. Linklater Year of Space (1954) 201 This old lady cannot speak English, but she has asked me to say that she would like to press noses with you.

1984 R. Corballis & S. Garrett Introd. Witi Ihimaera 23 Further changes were made before the first ‘Tangi’ (in Contemporary Maori Writing) became the definitive version (in Pounamu, Pounamu)... The characters ‘rub’ noses in the earlier version; they ‘press’ them in the later one.

1996 A. T. Hakiwai in D. C. Starzecka Maori Art & Culture iii. 57 When Maori people meet, they greet each other in the traditional way by pressing noses together, the custom known as the hongi.

单词	to touch noses
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