"noseshot" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: Blend of nose + earshot Etymology templates: {{blend|en|nose|earshot}} Blend of nose + earshot Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} noseshot (uncountable)
  1. range of smell, a distance in which something is detectable by smell Tags: uncountable Synonyms: nose-shot
    Sense id: en-noseshot-en-noun-a~J3Gp-X Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header

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          "text": "As she approached closer, though, the load of rabbits came into vivid noseshot, and the saxophonist's nose wrinkled at the reek.",
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          "ref": "2006, Jim Dawson, Blame It on the Dog: A Modern History of the Fart, page 73",
          "text": "...Fartman's thunder has been stolen by a character in the 1999 film Mystery Man named Spleen (played by Paul Reubens, better known as Pee Wee Herman) whose power was his ability to discharge farts so lethally putrid that they incapacitated anyone within noseshot.",
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