Noun: noust
| Singular | noust |
| Plural | nousts |
Sample Sentences
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Willie discovered Samuel trying to drag a strange yawl up the noust. [1972, George Mackay Brown, Greenvoe, Polygon, published 2019, page 230:]
Nouns inflected like noust
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From the (unattested) Norn reflex of Old Norse naust (“boathouse”). Cognate with Faroese neyst, Norwegian naust, Danish nøst (“boat-shed”). See: Faroese Nouns '
neyst', Danish Nouns '
nøst'.