nosehair

English

Noun

nosehair (countable and uncountable, plural nosehairs)

  1. Alternative form of nose hair
    • 1972, Hendrie, Don, Boomkitchwatt, John Muir Publications, page 130
      With slow, careful motions he entered into the process of scraping off the left half of his magnificient four-year-old moustache. He found it as difficult and painful as pulling nosehair out by the roots.
    • 1999, Blanchard, Alice, Darkness peering, Wheeler Pub., page 302
      He checked himself in the mirror; he needed a nosehair trim.
    • 1997, Young Bear, Ray A, Black Eagle Child : the Facepaint narratives, Grove Press page, 33
      I could hear each nosehair flicker and respond
    • 1993, Amerika, Mark, The Kafka chronicles, Black Ice Books, page 77
      She took her long fingernails and pinched his nosehairs as if she were playing, then, as if inspired, she pulled them as hard as she could, ripping them out of his nose.
    • 1998, Rankin, Ian, Tooth & nail : an Inspector Rebus novel, Orion, page 74
      Bitch,’ she says again, then carefully snips at the nostrils, her hand shaking. ‘Long nosehairs,’ she wails, ‘are so unbecoming. So unbecoming.’
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