nosewitness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A witness who gives evidence of what they have smelled.
    — Our language is shot through with expressions that point to this visual primacy: when we need to discover the facts about a crime we seek an eyewitness, not an earwitness. If we were dogs we would probably sniff out a nosewitness but since we are primates and not carnivores we look for someone who saw it done.

词形变化

nosewitnesses plural

词源

From nose + witness, by analogy with eyewitness and earwitness.
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