nosethirl

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Definition of nosethirl

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

(UK, archaic, regional)A nostril.

“proud Encelade, whose wide nosethrils burnd / With breathed flames, like to a furnace red [...].”

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From Middle English nosethirl. By surface analysis, nose + thirl. Compare nostril.

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