dog-nose

动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To nose around like a dog, to sniff as if searching
    — While Colonel John W. Sink, th’ eminent Grand Island cigar manufacturer, was out “dog-nosing” jack rabbits th’ other night, a glee club serenaded his home for two hours without response.
  2. To diagnose
    — And now here she was, wearing upon the delicate health of her hostess ; dependent upon the surgery of a more than rural doctor, who said he had dog-nosed the case ; and reduced entirely to her imagination and the daily mail (it seemed to make everything worse that it was brought five miles by a stage-coach) for any knowledge of her now sacred and absorbing interests at Fairharbor.
形容词 adj.
  1. Related to a dog’s nose not-comparable
    — He would smash his face into the doors at the end of his walks, trying to hasten their opening, and leave his little brown dog-nose smudges at his level.

词形变化

dog-noses present,singular,third-person dog-nosing participle,present dog-nosed participle,past dog-nosed past dog-noses present,singular,third-person dog-nosing participle,present dog-nosed participle,past dog-nosed past

词源

词源 1
From dog + nose.
词源 2
Folk etymology of diagnose.
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