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Definitions for Bluenose
[1] a puritanical person; prude.
[2] (initial capital letter ) Also Blue Nose . Canadian . an inhabitant of the Maritime Provinces, especially of Nova Scotia.
[3] Nautical Slang . a sailing vessel of Nova Scotia. a seaman on such a vessel.
[4] US slang a puritanical or prudish person
[5] (often capital) informal a native or inhabitant of Nova Scotia
Words related to Bluenose
demure, spruce, tidy, correct, uncluttered, Victorian, ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional, dapper, decorous, fastidious, formal, genteel, good, goody-goody, nice, orderly
Words nearby Bluenose
bluejack, bluejacket, bluejacking, blueline, blueness, bluenose, bluepoint, blueprint, blueprinting, blues, blues-rock
Origin of Bluenose
1780–85 (def 2, 3) ; 1925–30, Americanism (def 1) ; blue + nose; (def 1) cf. blue law, etc.; (def 2, 3) originally a derisive name for a person residing in Nova Scotia before the Loyalists' arrival; allegedly so called from a variety of potato with a bluish tip, though there is no certain evidence for this or any of various other explanations of the name
Synonyms for Bluenose
demure, correct, spruce, stickling, tidy, uncluttered, Victorian, ceremonial, ceremonious, choosy, cleanly, conventional, dapper, decorous, fastidious, formal, genteel, good, goody-goody, nice, nit-picking, orderly, overmodest, polite, precise, priggish, prissy, proper, prudish, puritanical, rigid, shipshape, spic-and-span, stiff, straight, strait-laced, stuffy, upright, well-groomed, wooden