"posy sniffer" meaning in English

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      "form": "posy sniffers",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Stories - Volumes 20-30, page 24",
          "text": "Buster, the boys say you are a posy sniffer and they'll take the leggin's to you if they catch you wearing dresses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Mike Blakely, Shortgrass Song, page 214",
          "text": "That ain't gonna sound i very good for a hero to be a posy sniffer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An effeminate man."
      ],
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          "effeminate",
          "effeminate"
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          "man",
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, derogatory) An effeminate man."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
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          "_dis1": "100 0",
          "sense": "effeminate man",
          "word": "cockney"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, 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?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Robert James Wolfe, Playing with Fish and Other Lessons from the North, page 33",
          "text": "\"They're posy sniffers,\" was the derogatory assessment by one Healy resident just a few road miles to the north.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Dan O'Neill, A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River",
          "text": "He could work himself into a great froth over the environmentalists, or “posy sniffers,” as he called them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An environmental activist."
      ],
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          "environmental",
          "environmental"
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          "activist",
          "activist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, derogatory) An environmental activist."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "34 66",
          "word": "quiche-eater"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "34 66",
          "word": "sissy"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "34 66",
          "word": "effeminate man"
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        {
          "_dis1": "34 66",
          "word": "posy-sniffer"
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          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "sense": "environmental activist",
          "word": "greenie"
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          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "sense": "environmental activist",
          "word": "lentil-weaver"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "sense": "environmental activist",
          "word": "tree hugger"
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 96",
          "sense": "environmental activist",
          "word": "yoghurt-knitter"
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        "derogatory",
        "slang"
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  "word": "posy sniffer"
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  "forms": [
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      "form": "posy sniffers",
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  "pos": "noun",
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        "English derogatory terms",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Stories - Volumes 20-30, page 24",
          "text": "Buster, the boys say you are a posy sniffer and they'll take the leggin's to you if they catch you wearing dresses.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1995, Mike Blakely, Shortgrass Song, page 214",
          "text": "That ain't gonna sound i very good for a hero to be a posy sniffer.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An effeminate man."
      ],
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          "derogatory",
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        [
          "effeminate",
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        ],
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          "man",
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        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, derogatory) An effeminate man."
      ],
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        "derogatory",
        "slang"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Dana Stabenow, Play with Fire, 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?",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2006, Robert James Wolfe, Playing with Fish and Other Lessons from the North, page 33",
          "text": "\"They're posy sniffers,\" was the derogatory assessment by one Healy resident just a few road miles to the north.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Dan O'Neill, A Land Gone Lonesome: An Inland Voyage Along the Yukon River",
          "text": "He could work himself into a great froth over the environmentalists, or “posy sniffers,” as he called them.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An environmental activist."
      ],
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        [
          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
        ],
        [
          "environmental",
          "environmental"
        ],
        [
          "activist",
          "activist"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(slang, derogatory) An environmental activist."
      ],
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        "derogatory",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "effeminate man",
      "word": "cockney"
    },
    {
      "word": "quiche-eater"
    },
    {
      "word": "sissy"
    },
    {
      "word": "effeminate man"
    },
    {
      "sense": "environmental activist",
      "word": "greenie"
    },
    {
      "sense": "environmental activist",
      "word": "lentil-weaver"
    },
    {
      "sense": "environmental activist",
      "word": "tree hugger"
    },
    {
      "sense": "environmental activist",
      "word": "yoghurt-knitter"
    },
    {
      "word": "posy-sniffer"
    }
  ],
  "word": "posy sniffer"
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