"bluenose" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-bluenose.ogg [Australia] Forms: bluenoses [plural]
Etymology: blue + nose Etymology templates: {{compound|en|blue|nose}} blue + nose Head templates: {{en-noun}} bluenose (plural bluenoses)
  1. (informal) A prude. Tags: informal Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-bluenose-en-noun-DEqWpG9T Disambiguation of People: 18 18 15 15 14 14 2 3 2
  2. (slang) A person from Nova Scotia, Canada. Tags: slang Categories (topical): People Categories (lifeform): Croakers, Percoid fish, Stromateoid fish
    Sense id: en-bluenose-en-noun-j6Zd6QxE Disambiguation of People: 18 18 15 15 14 14 2 3 2 Disambiguation of Croakers: 1 15 27 13 3 3 22 8 7 Disambiguation of Percoid fish: 1 16 26 13 3 3 22 8 7 Disambiguation of Stromateoid fish: 1 16 26 14 3 3 23 8 7
  3. (US, naval slang) A person who has crossed the Arctic Circle. Tags: US, slang Categories (topical): People Categories (lifeform): Croakers, Percoid fish, Potatoes, Stromateoid fish
    Sense id: en-bluenose-en-noun-02tgrMHP Disambiguation of People: 18 18 15 15 14 14 2 3 2 Disambiguation of Croakers: 1 15 27 13 3 3 22 8 7 Disambiguation of Percoid fish: 1 16 26 13 3 3 22 8 7 Disambiguation of Potatoes: 1 14 30 14 2 2 20 9 8 Disambiguation of Stromateoid fish: 1 16 26 14 3 3 23 8 7 Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 0 14 31 11 1 2 22 11 8 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 0 12 34 10 1 1 23 11 8 Topics: government, military, naval, navy, politics, war
  4. (slang) A variety of potato from Nova Scotia, Canada. Tags: slang Categories (topical): People Categories (lifeform): Croakers, Percoid fish, Stromateoid fish
    Sense id: en-bluenose-en-noun-P3leBbfR Disambiguation of People: 18 18 15 15 14 14 2 3 2 Disambiguation of Croakers: 1 15 27 13 3 3 22 8 7 Disambiguation of Percoid fish: 1 16 26 13 3 3 22 8 7 Disambiguation of Stromateoid fish: 1 16 26 14 3 3 23 8 7
  5. (slang) A follower of Everton Football Club. Tags: slang Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-bluenose-en-noun-ftAAHiJa Disambiguation of People: 18 18 15 15 14 14 2 3 2
  6. (slang) A follower of Birmingham City Football Club. Tags: slang Categories (topical): People
    Sense id: en-bluenose-en-noun-w--XnRsG Disambiguation of People: 18 18 15 15 14 14 2 3 2
  7. (US, Australia) A trout cod (Maccullochella macquariensis) Tags: Australia, US Categories (lifeform): Croakers, Percoid fish, Stromateoid fish
    Sense id: en-bluenose-en-noun-d2ONKeBq Disambiguation of Croakers: 1 15 27 13 3 3 22 8 7 Disambiguation of Percoid fish: 1 16 26 13 3 3 22 8 7 Disambiguation of Stromateoid fish: 1 16 26 14 3 3 23 8 7 Categories (other): American English, Australian English
  8. (US, UK, Australia, New Zealand) Antarctic butterfish (Hyperoglyphe antarctica) Tags: Australia, New-Zealand, UK, US
    Sense id: en-bluenose-en-noun-cXKjYPMm Categories (other): American English, Australian English, British English, New Zealand English
  9. (Australia) blue-throated wrasse (Notolabrus tetricus) Tags: Australia
    Sense id: en-bluenose-en-noun-ursDCCKL Categories (other): Australian English

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  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-bluenose.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f1/En-au-bluenose.ogg/En-au-bluenose.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/En-au-bluenose.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "bluenose"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.