Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a set of unruly persons who infested public places in London in the last half of the eighteenth century, and emphasized their opinions by pulling their opponents' noses.
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Examples
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I would not resent it in so public a place, because I was unwilling to create a disturbance: but have since reflected upon it as a thing that is unmanly and disingenuous, renders the nose-puller odious, and makes the person pulled by the nose look little and contemptible.
History of English Humour, Vol. 2 (of 2) Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873
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