NOSE OUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nose out mean? 

• NOSE OUT (verb)
  The verb NOSE OUT has 1 sense:

1. recognize or detect by or as if by smelling

  Familiarity information: NOSE OUT used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOSE OUT (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Recognize or detect by or as if by smelling

Classified under:

Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling

Synonyms:

nose out; scent out; smell out; sniff out

Context example:

He can smell out trouble

"Nose out" entails doing...:

smell (inhale the odor of; perceive by the olfactory sense)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

 Context examples 

"Now look here, old woman," Higginbotham bullied, "for the thousandth time I've told you to keep your nose out of the business. I won't tell you again."

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He clambered up and down stairs, and went from the parlour to the bar and back again, and sometimes put his nose out of doors to smell the sea, holding on to the walls as he went for support and breathing hard and fast like a man on a steep mountain.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They came and went, resided in the populous kennels, or lived obscurely in the recesses of the house after the fashion of Toots, the Japanese pug, or Ysabel, the Mexican hairless,—strange creatures that rarely put nose out of doors or set foot to ground.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)