DCHP-3

Nose

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. — Slang, Obs.

a Conservative (def. 2).

See: Conservative(def. 2)

Quotations

1923
The next blue book is a thick one of over six hundred pages. The wide margins are copiously illustrated with youthful political caricatures of the Goodfellows and the Noses (the latter soubriquet bestowed on account of the protruberant feature of their chief [Sir John A. Macdonald]) engaged in all the imaginable and unimaginable stages of punitive combat. . . .