nose-high
/ˌnəʊzˈhʌɪ/adjective
1Rising or reaching as high as a person's nose.
- Formerly common with reference to the flames of a fire..
2 Informal. Haughty, disdainful.
3 Aeronautics and Astronautics = nose-up.
Origin
Mid 16th century; earliest use found in Thomas Drant (c1540–1578), poet and Church of England clergyman. From nose + high.
- feelingly
- feelingness
- feel like (doing) something
- feel one's age
- feel one's oats
- feel one's way
- feel (or find) one's legs
- feel (or look) small
- feel (or take) the pulse of
- feel small
- feel the draught
- feel the pinch
- feel the pulse of
- feelthy
- feely
- fee-paying
- fee simple
- feet
- fee tail
- feet first
- feet of clay
- feh
- Fehling's reagent
- Fehling's solution
- Feiffer, Jules