See posy sniffer on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, →ISBN, page 140:",
"text": "Are all the tree huggers and posy sniffers too busy saving the whales to join hands and lie down in front of even one cement truck?",
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"ref": "2006, Robert James Wolfe, Playing with Fish and Other Lessons from the North, →ISBN, page 33:",
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