Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having a red nose, as a toper.
  • Having a red beak: as, the red-nosed auklet, Simorhynchus pygmæus, also called whiskered auklet.

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Examples

  • "Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer," a new member of the delivery and shipping department, possesses a unique physical appearance that is immediately obvious from his mocking moniker: he "had a very shiny nose."

    Michael L. Millenson: "Rudolph" Sings of Santa as Savvy Manager, Marketer Michael L. Millenson 2011

  • "We don't want to get arrested, but we don't know where we're going to go," said Shelly Moss, a homeless woman living in the camp with her three teenage children and red-nosed pit bull.

    Occupy Camps Told to Quit Tamara Audi 2011

  • A paw pumped the air in exultation as the red-nosed leader became swiss-cheese venison.

    DANGEROUS SKIES • by Gustavo Bondoni 2009

  • I think the secret to Santa's real motivation comes from the song's last couplet --"Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer/You'll go down in history."

    Michael L. Millenson: "Rudolph" Sings of Santa as Savvy Manager, Marketer Michael L. Millenson 2011

  • Answer: Are you setting me up for a punch line about red-nosed Rudolph flying too high on Christmas Eve?

    Ask an old gringo: health care, bureaucracy, bike paths and Christmas gifts 2008

  • His waistline ballooned, and when he did show up to gigs, he was often completely trashed no thanks to his red-nosed enabler and drinking buddy, Rudolph.

    Sketchy Santas Will Zweigart 2010

  • Jim was about forty, and my first impression was that he was a red-nosed Irishman who liked his whiskey just a wee bit too much.

    Joseph Smigelski: Jim Frey: the Best Writing Teacher on the Planet 2010

  • Everybody's favorite red-nosed reindeer proves he isn't a one-trick pony when Santa sends him on a mission to find the aurally enhanced Baby New Year.

    Tonight's TV Hot List: Tuesday, Dec. 28, 2010 2010

  • The clowns are neither the bewigged bozos who gave you nightmares as a child nor the bemasked Italian Harlequins that gave you nightmares as a college student, but instead red-nosed, wordless caricatures that embody certain Metro tropes like Guy From Baltimore Who Hits on All the Ladies (Jon Reynolds) or Uptight Intern With a Laugh Like a Fire Alarm (Micael Bogar) or Tourist Who Apparently Has Never Before Seen a Map (Lenore Sack).

    Theater review of 'Separated at Birth' at Mead Theatre Lab 2010

  • “They stood rubily, stubbornly, with the strong brown smell of shame in their nostrils, for the bloodshot, malt-mouthed, red-nosed, loose-pursed Demon Rum.”

    LAST CALL DANIEL OKRENT 2010

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