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bluenose

[ UK /blˈuːnə‍ʊz/ ]
NOUN
  1. a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia

How To Use bluenose In A Sentence

  • He urged bluenoses to take ladies of the street into their homes until they got back on their feet, so to speak.
  • He gets regular invitations to hook up with fellow ex-pat bluenoses and take in TV games, invitations he is happy to accept.
  • “Still, thought you might like to hear the last word from the bluenose himself.” DIAMOND RUBY
  • You need the reader to understand at a glance that some character is supposed to be an intimidating badass, or a provincial boor, or a smarmy selfish jerk, or a naive idealist, or an uptight bluenose, the quickest way to do this is by cuing the reader by invoking some stereotype complex that includes these traits. The Wisdom of Clowns
  • So this is quite a choice we're left with: is it better to be a bigot who's in favor of government regulation of gay sex, or a bluenose who's in favor of government regulation of all kinds of sex?
  • In the movie "Bowery to Broadway" (1944), it is the members of the Murray Hill Society for Social Reform — a perfect bluenose name — who call in the police to halt a performance by the song-and-dance protagonist. Visiting Cagney's Neighborhood
  • The typical 'bluenose' is the small farmer-fisherman, a handy man of many trades. The Canadian Type
  • Oh, and there being a widespread proliferation of interesting ARM-based designs, many available to buy on a per unit basis for reasonable sums of money, and yet RISC OS is the "devil on skis" choice, hypothetically available for such devices if people weren't too busy squabbling and playing gatekeeper with their continually depreciating "intellectual property". bluenose: "Still we can dream of another white knight riding in to produce ARM hardware Drobe Launchpad News
  • The best type is energetic but reserved; for the 'bluenose' does not consider it necessary to be self-assertive. The Canadian Type
  • The latter shocked bluenoses with satanic sadism, but also reassured the devout by insisting that God and the devil were real.
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