nose

[nəuz] 1. noun

1) (the part of the face by which people and animals smell and usually breathe: She held the flower to her nose; He punched the man on the nose.) nos

2) (the sense of smell: Police dogs have good noses and can follow criminals' trails.) nos

3) (the part of anything which is like a nose in shape or position: the nose of an aeroplane.) kljun

2. verb

1) (to make a way by pushing carefully forward: The ship nosed (its way) through the ice.) iti previdno

2) (to look or search as if by smelling: He nosed about (in) the cupboard.) vohljati

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- -nosed

- nosey
- nosy
- nosily
- nosiness
- nose-bag
- nosedive
- nose job 3. verb

(to make such a dive: Suddenly the plane nosedived.) pikirati

- follow one's nose

- lead by the nose
- nose out
- pay through the nose
- turn up one's nose at
- under a person's very nose
- under very nose
- under a person's nose
- under nose

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I [nóuz]

noun

nos, smrček; figuratively voh; konica, osina, kljun (ladijski); odprtina (cevi); slang vohljač; British English duh po čaju (senu)

with one's nose in the air — prevzetno

to bite ( —ali snap) s.o.'s nose off — ostro napasti, obregniti se ob koga

to blow one's nose — usekniti se

to cut off one's nose to spite one's face — samemu sebi škoditi, obrisati se pod nosom

to count ( —ali tell) noses — šteti prisotne, šteti privržence

to follow one's nose — hoditi za nosom, delati po nagonu

to have a good nose for s.th. — imeti dober nos za kaj, vse izvohati

to keep one's nose to the grindstone — kar naprej garati

to lead s.o. by the nose — imeti koga na vajetih

to look down one's nose — čemerno gledati

to make long nose — ali to thumb one's nose at — kazati komu osle

American colloquially on the nose — točen

to pay through the nose — preplačati, mastno plačati

as plain as the nose in one's face — jasno ko beli dan

to poke ( —ali push, thrust) one's nose into — vtakniti nos v vsako reč, vmešavati se

not to see beyond one's nose — ne videti delj od svojega nosu, imeti ozko obzorje

to speak through one's nose — govoriti skozi nos, nosljati

to put s.o.'s nose out of joint — izpodriniti koga

right under one's (very) nose — pred nosom, pred očmi

to turn up one's nose at — vihati nos

nose of wax — mehak ko vosek, slabič

parson's — kurja škofija

II [nóuz]

1.

transitive verb

vohati, zavohati, ovohavati; dotakniti se z nosom; figuratively izvohati, odkriti, najti; izgovarjati skozi nos;

2.

intransitive verb

vohati, iskati (after, for)

to nose one's way — iti previdno

to nose on — s.o. ovaditi koga