Noun: nose
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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Ful semyly hir wympul pynched was / Hir nose tretys, hir eyen greye as glas[…] (Her wimple was folded in quite a seemly way / Her nose [was] slender; her eyes [were] grey like glass […]) [a. 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 151–152:]
Nouns inflected like nose
scalle,
schire,
schete,
bente mone,
pantere,
newe mone,
schrewe,
schanke,
schafte,
morewetid sterre,
kidenere,
yong mone,
sorinesse,
chirche,
cold sterre,
crouche,
culvere,
blasynge sterre,
do,
to, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English nosu, from Proto-West Germanic *nosu. See: Old English Nouns '
nosu'.
Verbs referencing "nose"
English Nouns
nose, English Nouns
noose.
Translations