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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A promontory.

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Examples

  • All day long they sit talking, chewing noss (nasty - I wouldn't recommend it), smoking, drinking cheap vodka, and watching life along the main road pass by ... and they are still there, doing the same thing, without missing a beat, even though all the buildings surrounding their little business have been torn down, and the sidewalk in front of them is full of debris.

    Hanging On... 2004

  • All day long they sit talking, chewing noss (nasty - I wouldn't recommend it), smoking, drinking cheap vodka, and watching life along the main road pass by ... and they are still there, doing the same thing, without missing a beat, even though all the buildings surrounding their little business have been torn down, and the sidewalk in front of them is full of debris.

    Wanderlustress: 2004

  • November 5th, 2009 at 6: 04 pm PST lol reply elliot noss

    Domain Industry Rocked By Shill Auction Bidding Admission Michael Arrington 2005

  • [13] Nose is noss in Russian, and Gospodin equivalent to the English ` ` Mr. ''

    Taras Bulba and Other Tales 1952

  • Orkneys and Shetlands, -- _noss_, there, signifying a headland.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864 Various

  • IMPORTANT © COPYRIGHT NOTICE noss ... gostei das cores de da iluminação ... muito lindoo

    Popular in the last 8 hours 2009

  • Yaret bass fi 7ada min Hasroun yikhabberna kam Fpmer fi honeek .. 1 or wa7ad wou noss?

    news.beiruter.com - A directory of Lebanese blogs 2008

  • Yaret bass fi 7ada min Hasroun yikhabberna kam Fpmer fi honeek .. 1 or wa7ad wou noss?

    The Ouwet Front: A Lebanese Forces Blog N10452 2008

  • Looking down and out to sea from the cliff edge at Hermaness (at the tip of Unst, the northernmost inhabited island of Shetland) or the Noup of Noss (the highest cliffs on Shetland’s east coast; “noss” comes from the Norse word for “nose”) you find yourself dizzyingly, exhilaratingly in the middle of a performance.

    A Year on the Wing TIM DEE 2009

  • November 4th, 2009 at 4: 12 pm PST elliot, I’ve always respected your views, but i just don’t think an insider can really see the industry for what is is, and always will be. reply elliot noss

    Domain Industry Rocked By Shill Auction Bidding Admission Michael Arrington 2005

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  • From the Norse word for nose according to one of the examples.

    July 25, 2022